Biography
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.
Filmography
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Never Seen Volcanoes (2024)
White Noise (2022)
Never Ever (2016)
Cosmopolis (2012)
Game 6 (2006)
Underworld
The Silence
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Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-11-20 (88 years old)
Birth Name
Donald Richard DeLillo
Birth Place
The Bronx, United States
Citizenships
United States of America
Residences
New York City, United States of America, Athens, Greece
Awards
Carl Sandburg Literary Award, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award, American Book Awards, Jerusalem Prize
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