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Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In October 2012, DeLillo receives the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.

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Excerpt:
Chapter 2 from The Angel Esmeralda
Feb 02, 2013
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on October 02, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Oct 02, 2012
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 02, 2012
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Don DeLillo appearances
Sep 08, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Body Artist
Aug 02, 2012
Cosmopolis will be released on June 26, 2012 in Trade Paperback, Compact Disk
Jun 26, 2012
Cosmopolis is now available in Trade Paperback, Compact Disk
Jun 26, 2012
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on November 15, 2011 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on November 15, 2011 in eBook
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in eBook
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on November 15, 2011 in Compact Disk, Audio Download, eAudio
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in Compact Disk, Audio Download, eAudio
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on November 15, 2011 in Compact Disk
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in Compact Disk
Nov 15, 2011
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Angel Esmeralda
Nov 12, 2011

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The Independent, May 17, 2013
...maybe even a paragraph. Final nod to the first book I thought of when I thought of blurbs. Don DeLillo doesn’t need blurbs, but if you’re going to have them, you might as well have them from the likes of Salman Rushdie or Michael Ondaatje. What I...
IndUS Business Journal, May 16, 2013
...Author Don DeLillo once said: "America was and is an immigrant's dream." And this crossed my mind when interviewing journalist, foreign policy analyst and author Fareed Zakaria, an extraordinary Indian...
Jezebel, May 13, 2013
...pushing, and a little bit of researching. It takes recognizing the talent of Zadie Smith as well as Don DeLillo. It takes realizing that there is no logical difference in ability between men and women writers, and that women don’t just write for...
Pop Matters, May 13, 2013
...to name the best American fiction since 1980. The top five were Toni Morrison’s Beloved (15 votes), Don Delillo’s Underworld (11 votes), Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (8 votes), John Updike’s Rabbit quartet (8 votes), and Philip Roth’s...
Buffalo News, May 12, 2013
...tanked except among a tiny passionate minority while its influence eventually spread through Thomas Pynchon, William H. Gass, Don DeLillo and all manner of others, without ever casting large numbers of readers back to the immense and astonishing...
Associated Content, May 10, 2013
...Flaubert, Twain, Trollope, Evelyn Waugh, P.G. Wodehouse, Joyce, J.G. Ballard, Graham Greene, Saul Bellow, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, etc. etc. Poets: Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Larkin, Heaney, etc." Q8) Music is a big part of your novels....
Cherwell Newspaper, May 9, 2013
...again, as are Hemingway’s short stories Big Two-Hearted River, parts one and two. He names Underworld by Don DeLillo as an inspiration for the openning sequence in his second novel Heartland and loves fiction that is “deeply rooted in a sense of...
Associated Content, May 10, 2013
...Flaubert, Twain, Trollope, Evelyn Waugh, P.G. Wodehouse, Joyce, J.G. Ballard, Graham Greene, Saul Bellow, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, etc. etc. Poets: Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Larkin, Heaney, etc." Q8) Music is a big part of your novels....
Cherwell Newspaper, May 9, 2013
...again, as are Hemingway’s short stories Big Two-Hearted River, parts one and two. He names Underworld by Don DeLillo as an inspiration for the openning sequence in his second novel Heartland and loves fiction that is “deeply rooted in a sense of...
Media Bistro, May 9, 2013
...We Will Remember in 100 Years by Margaret Atwood by Roberto Bolano by Michael Chabon White Noise by Don DeLillo by Junot Diaz Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen by Khaled Hosseini by John Irving The Stand by Stephen King...
Las Vegas City Life, May 9, 2013
...writer as he is, dialogue between a father and his preteen daughter is not his forté. To borrow Don DeLillo’s famous phrase, Barnes does not excel with “around-the-yard-and-in-the-house” fiction. But he more than makes up for this minor...
NPR, May 8, 2013
...historically, to intellectuals (Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gertrude Stein counted themselves as hard-core crime-fiction devotees). More recently, writers like Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and David Mamet have employed detective-novel tropes to grapple with...
WNYC, May 8, 2013
...historically, to intellectuals (Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gertrude Stein counted themselves as hard-core crime-fiction devotees). More recently, writers like Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and David Mamet have employed detective-novel tropes to grapple with...
Mirror.co.uk, May 5, 2013
...despair and the importance of the individual include Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, W.H Auden, Don DeLillo, Franz Kafka, J.D Salinger and Malcolm Muggeridge. Click through the gallery below to see more examples of recent Google...