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About Don DeLillo
American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist
Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. He is known for fiction that takes on modern life and its pressures, from consumer culture and television to politics, economics, sport, and the digital age. Across novels, stories, plays, scripts, and essays, DeLillo returns to the systems and language that shape public and private life. His work also engages with nuclear war, art, and mathematics, often tracing how ideas, media, and technology affect the way people think and speak.
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- “So much of the language that surrounds us - from things like economics, management theory, and the algorithms…”Adam Curtis
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Books by Don DeLillo
Cosmopolis
2003
Underworld
1997
Libra
1988
Falling Man
2007
Mao II
1991