About

Known credits:
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Birthday:
1936-11-20
Place of birth:
New York City, New York, USA
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Don DeLillo

Overview

Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.

DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the Kennedy assassination. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld, a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and the 2013 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

Known for

Acting
2024 Never Seen Volcanoes Actor Self (voice, archive footage) N/A
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2016 Nelson Algren Live Actor Max N/A
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1991 Don DeLillo: The Word, The Image, and The Gun Actor Narrator N/A
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Writing
2022 White Noise Writing Book 57
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2022 White Noise Writing Novel 57
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2016 Never Ever Writing Novel 58
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2012 Cosmopolis Writing Novel 57
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2006 Game 6 Writing Writer 57
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The Silence Writing Novel N/A
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Underworld Writing Novel N/A
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The Names Writing Novel N/A
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