Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is an American postmodern novelist, screenwriter and playwright.

Don DeLillo, one of the foremost standard-bearers of the literary Postmodern movement, considers non-literary elements like abstract expressionism, foreign films, and jazz music primary influences on his work. He often satirizes academia, the media, and the shifting role of the artist at the turn of the century. Noted literary critic Harold Bloom places DeLillo with Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Cormac McCarthy as one of the four major American novelists of our time.

• Americana
• White Noise
• Libra
• Falling Man

• 1936: Born in the Bronx, New York

• 1958: Receives Bachelors Degree from Fordham University

• 1975: Marries Barbara Bennett.

• 1979: Moves to Greece for three years.

• 1985: Wins National Book Award for White Noise

• 1997: Underworld ranks #2 in New York Times list of best American novels of past 25 years

• 2004: Papers collected by University of Texas-Austin Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center