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   Don Dellilo, an American novelist, short story writer, playwright
   

Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. His works cover topics as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexity of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age digital, political, economic and global terrorism.

DeLillo was already a critically acclaimed hit writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and won him the National Book Award for Fiction. White Noise was followed in 1988 by Libra, a bestseller. DeLillo was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Mao II in 1992 and Underworld in 1998), won the PEN/Faulkner Prize for Mao II in 1992 (received an additional PEN/Faulkner Award nomination).
DeLillo has described his novels as involving "living in perilous times" and in a 2005 interview he said that writers "have to stand up to the systems. It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole corrupt system of consumption and entertainment... I think writers are essentially against everything, against everything. that power is trying to impose on us." ¹
DeLillo was born on November 20, 1936 in New York City and grew up in a working-class Italian Catholic family with ties to Molise, Italy, in an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx near Avenue Arthur. Recalling his childhood in the Bronx, DeLillo said he was "always on the street. As a boy, I spent most of my time posing as a baseball radio host. I can imagine matches for hours on end There were 11 of us in a little house, but proximity was never an issue. I don't know other things. We always speak English and Italian mixed. My grandmother, who lived fifty years in America, never learned English."

As a teenager, DeLillo wasn't interested in writing until he landed a summer job as a parking lot attendant, where hours of waiting and observing traffic led to a habit. lifelong reading. Reminiscing about this period, in a 2010 interview, he said, "I had a golden age of reading in my twenties and early thirties, and then my writing started. took so long". Among the writers DeLillo read and was inspired by during this time were James Joyce, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Ernest Hemingway, who greatly influenced DeLillo's early writing efforts in late adolescence.

In addition to the influence of modern fiction, DeLillo also cites the influence of jazz music—"the likes of Ornette Coleman and Mingus and Coltrane and Miles Davis"—and postwar cinema: "Antonioni and Godard and Truffaut, then. in the 70s appeared Americans, many of whom were influenced by Europeans: Kubrick, Altman, Coppola, Scorsese, etc. The influence of cinema, especially European cinema, on his work. According to DeLillo, "European and Asian cinema of the 1960s shaped the way I thought and felt things. At that time, I was living in New York, I didn't have much money, I didn't have much work, I lived in a room... I was a man in a small room. And I went to the cinema a lot, watching Bergman, Antonioni, Godard. When I was growing up in the Bronx, I didn't go to the movies, and I didn't consider the American films I watched as works of art. Perhaps, in an indirect way, cinema has allowed me to become a writer." the course I took.This is what happens if you are the eldest son of an Italian family: you have some time, and it worked in my case."
After graduating from Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx in 1954 and Fordham University in the Bronx with a bachelor's degree in communication arts in 1958, DeLillo took a job in advertising because he couldn't get a spot in the college. publishing industry. He worked for 5 years as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather on 5th Avenue, writing image ads for Sears Roebuck among others, working on "Print ads, very ordinary accounts...I don't know. switched to TV. I was just getting better when I left in 1964."

DeLillo published his first short story in 1960—"The River Jordan," in Epoch, the literary journal of Cornell University—and began writing his first novel in 1966. During his writing career, DeLillo said: "I wrote a few short stories. stories back then were rare. I quit my job, I quit my job. I don't quit my job to write novels. I just don't want to work anymore." In 1993, when reminiscing about starting his novel relatively late, DeLillo said, "I wish I had started earlier, but obviously I do. not ready. First, I lack ambition. I may have had a novel in mind but very little paper and no personal goals, no burning desire to achieve them. Second, I don't know what it takes to be a serious writer. It took me a long time to develop that."

DeLillo began her writing career as a copywriter for an advertising agency. He published his first short story, "The River Jordan", in the Cornell Literary Review in 1960. He quit his job in advertising in 1964 and began writing his first novel in 1966. Americana (1971) was published four years later and marked DeLillo's introduction to the literary world. By 1978, DeLillo had written five more novels: End Zone (1972), Great Jones Street (1973), Ratner's Star (1976), The Player (1977) and Running Dog (1978). These novels deal with topics as diverse as nuclear war, football, math, aliens, and pornography starring Adolf Hitler.
DeLillo received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978, which allowed him to travel to the Middle East and Greece. There he wrote the sports novel Les Amazones (1980), published under a pseudonym, and the thriller Les Noms (1982). ²
In 1985, DeLillo published his eighth novel, White Noise, which earned him the National Book Award for Fiction. It was this novel that introduced DeLillo to the public as a leading author and earned him a place in the standards of postmodern novelists. This was followed by the best-selling novel Libra (1988) and the PEN/Faulkner Prize-winning novel Mao II (1991). After Mao II was published, DeLillo disappeared from the public eye for many years while writing Underworld (1997). It was an instant hit and became DeLillo's best novel. He won the 1998 American Book Award, the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the 2000 Riccardo Bacchelli International Prize.
Around the turn of the century, DeLillo turned to writing shorter fiction. These novels include The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis (2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). He has also been an active playwright since 1979.
Today, Don DeLillo lives with his wife in Bronxville, New York. He is currently working with the American Library to publish an anthology of his three major works from the 1980s. This volume is expected to be published in late 2022. DeLillo belongs to the category of postmodern writers. As is often the case in postmodernism, much of DeLillo's work is characterized by hyper-fiction, historical and political references, intertextuality, unrealistic plots, and unreliable storytelling. . He is famous for romanticizing historical events and looking to the future. He wrote about a variety of genres, from Hitler and the Nazis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. DeLillo's writing style varies slightly in each of his novels. To accurately portray his storytellers, the syntax and expressions he uses vary depending on the context in his novels. DeLillo sometimes uses technical jargon and pretentious language to deliberately describe his characters. Other times, it is more descriptive and poetic, including rhyming within its sentences and focusing narrowly on how words look on the page. In short, DeLillo's writing style is adaptable and different depending on the themes of his novels.
In addition to her work as a novelist, DeLillo also wrote many essays. His essays have appeared in magazines such as Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Harper and Granta. DeLillo's essays cover a wide variety of topics, from the assassination of JFK to the events of September 11, 2001, to essays on his upcoming novels.
DeLillo's first major essay was published in Rolling Stone in 1983. It was titled "American Blood: A Journey Through the Labyrinth of Dallas and JFK." Written five years before his novel The Balance, this essay reveals DeLillo's fascination with the JFK assassination. He again reacted to American history with his 2001 essay "In the Ruins of the Future". In this essay, DeLillo ponders America's future after terrorism and the tragedy of 9/11. This quote was included in Conversations with Don DeLillo (2005), a collection of written interviews DeLillo has conducted throughout his career. For years, DeLillo declined interviews, cautiously staying away. However, after the success of White Noise, he decided it was time to connect with his readers. This quote shows an example of DeLillo's understanding of the nature of fiction and its purpose in the broader context of the world. In this quote from DeLillo's White Noise, the narrator comments on society's shared humanity and shared fears. White Noise focuses on people's fear of death. While everyone experiences fear, in one way or another we can all function and continue living knowing that we will inevitably die. While fear can separate and limit us, the narrator suggests that it also unites and connects us. This quote is from DeLillo's tenth novel, Mao II. Mao II talks about terrorism and the impact of the media on society. In this quote, DeLillo mourns the loss of individuality and independent thinking as well as the transition to conformity and mass consciousness. When terrorism took hold and people started accepting whatever the media told them to be true, no one thought for themselves. This quote can be read as a warning against mob mentality and loss of individuality.

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