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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... its my nature to

keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in mywork.

Don DeLillo


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Biography

Nov. 20 1936: Born in the Bronx, New York

1958: Attended Fordham University where he receivedhis B.A.

1958 - 1960s: Worked as a copywriter at an advertisingagency.

1971: Publishes his first novel,Americana

1984: Received the Award in Literature 1985: Received the American Book Award for White

Noise

1988: Nominated for the American Book Award for Libra


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Biography

1992: Received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II.

1997: His most successful and famous novel,

Underworldis published.

1999: Received the Jerusalem Prize for Underworld

2000: Received the William Dean Howells Medal forUnderworld

2007: His 9/11 novel, Falling Man is published

2011: Publishes his first short story collection titled TheAngel Esmeralda Nine Stories


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Publishing History

NovelsAmericana (1971)End Zone (1972)Great Jones Street (1973)Ratners Star (1976)Players (1977)Running Dog (1978)Amazons (1980)The Names (1982)White Noise (1985)Libra (1988)Mao II (1991)

Underworld (1997)*The Body Artist (2001)Cosmopolis (2003)Falling Man (2007)Point Omega (2010)

*indicates more popular works by Don DeLillo*


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Publishing HistoryThe Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories (2011)

CreationHuman Moments in World War IIIThe RunnerThe Ivory Acrobat

The Angel EsmeraldaBaader-MeinhofMidnight in DostoevskyHammer and SickleThe Starveling

Plays

The Day Room (1986)Valparaiso (1999)Love-Lies-Bleeding (2005)


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Postmodernism

Premise that no definite terms, boundaries, orabsolute truths exist.

Irony and humor are among some of thecharacteristics used.

Postmodernism involves the combination of manyelements of other genres and styles to create a

unique tone of voice.

Metafiction is used in postmodernism which is, insimple terms, writing about writing.


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Postmodernism

Some novels fictionalize historical events andcharacters, such as DeLillos Falling Man, which centersaround the September 11th attacks.

Paranoia is a common effect used in postmodernism. Itis when the author writes under the assumption thatmodern society cannot be explained or understood.

One of the more distinct characteristics is magicrealism. It is when the author introduces impossibleelements into a literary work.

Participation is also a characteristic. Authors use thistechnique to actively engage the reader throughout thecourse of a novel.


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Characteristics of Writing Described to have an obsession with

Some of his works have been described as jig-saw

puzzles assembled on a card table that is bumped -the pieces are all there but, they do not seem to fit

neatly together.

DeLillo tends to write outside of the usual

framework.

Novels have obscure characteristics that take muchthought to solve.

Ponders the meaning of life in many novels,including The Body Artist.


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Critical Success

Novels described as satirical yet, penetrating points

of contemporary American society.

Critics sited his fascination with the meaning andusage of words as a particular source of pleasure.

The success of Underworld, renewed critical interestin his earlier works.

Described as the chief shaman of the paranoid

school of American fiction.


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Popular Success Received the Award in Literature in1984.

Received the American Book Award in1985 for his novel White Noise.

Nominated for the American BookAward in 1988 for Libra.

Received the PEN/Faulkner Award forMao II

Underworld, his most popular novel ispublished in 1997 which inspires manyto read his previous novels.


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Popular Success

Received the Jerusalem Prize forUnderworldin 1999.

Received the William Dean HowellsMedal for Underworldin 2000.

His more popular novels include

bestsellers Underworldand WhiteNoise as well as Falling Man, Libra, andMao II.


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Quotes

When you try to unravel something youve

written, you belittle it in a way. It was created asa mystery.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of itand the writer learns how to know it when he

finally gets there.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of

thinking.

Ive always liked being relatively obscure. I feel

thats were I belong, thats where my work

belongs.


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Works Cited

DeLillo, Don, ed. The Angel Esmeralda Nine Stories. New York: Scribner, 2011. Print.

- - -. Interview by Bing, et al.Don DeLillo Biography. N.p., 24 Feb. 1998. Web. 27 Nov. 2011.

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- - -. Don DeLillo Quotes. Brainy Quote. Book Rags Media Network, 2001. Web. 27 Nov. 2011.

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A List of Postmodernism Characteris tics. Postmodernism. tumblr, 11 May 2009. Web. 4 Dec. 2011.

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Overview of Don DeLillo. DISCovering Authors. Detrioit: Gale, 2003. N. pag. Discover Collection.

Gale Databases. Web. 4 Dec. 2011. .

Weisenburger, Steven C, and Trey Strecker. Don DeLillo. Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth

Revised Edition. 4th ed. Salem, 2003. 1-2.MagillOnLiterature Plus. Web. 27 Nov. 2011.
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