Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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• The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
  • In Dallas, pt. 2 (1988).

[edit] The Names (1982)

• I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
  • Ch. 1

• If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
  • Ch. 4

• In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
  • Ch. 5

[edit] External links

• Extensive DeLillo bibliography
• Don DeLillo papers archived at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
• The New Yorker magazine discussion on the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in which Mr. DeLillo discusses writing.
• Literary Encyclopedia Biography
• Don DeLillo Society
• Don DeLillo's America - Comprehensive page with a biography, reviews, works, interviews, and literary criticism (and the Bibliography above).