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Topic: Don DeLillo


  
  The Don DeLillo Society
In 1999, he became the first American recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, awarded to writers "whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society" and previously awarded to Milan Kundera, Mario Vargas Llosa, V. Naipaul, Graham Greene, Simone de Beauvoir and Jorge Luis Borges.
Over the past two decades, DeLillo scholarship has grown to include topics as diverse as postmodernity, historiography, systems theory, technology, film, and literary Naturalism, to name but a few.
As the body of critical literature and topics for discussion continue to expand, the Don DeLillo Society seeks to facilitate the exchange of ideas between scholars, critics, teachers, and general readers.
www.k-state.edu /english/nelp/delillo   (226 words)

  
  GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Don DeLillo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Don DeLillo was born on Nov. 20, 1936, in New York City's borough of the Bronx, to Italian immigrants.
DeLillo had little contact with literature until he was 18, when he describes being carried away by the power and beauty of language.
DeLillo shows no signs of slowing in production or award-collecting, nor does his preference to remain reclusive seem to be as overpowering as it is for his major postmodern literary counterpart, Thomas Pynchon.
www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_don_delillo.html   (461 words)

  
 Don DeLillo's America
Don DeLillo has published thirteen novels since 1971, along with several plays and numerous stories.
What's New from DeLillo: DeLillo novel Falling Man was released in May 2007.
Don DeLillo's America came online on February 3, 1996, and is updated regularly.
www.perival.com /delillo/delillo.html   (0 words)

  
 Salon.com People | Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo, a novelist who has made American life his explicit subject for over 30 years, has faced similar charges.
Even tributes have tended to diminish DeLillo, as when Martin Amis trivialized him as "the poet of paranoia." Yet his dozen novels -- and handful of plays, stories and essays -- range widely and assuredly across the broad swath of the postwar American experience.
His literary peer Thomas Pynchon has applauded DeLillo for "a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing." In light of the events of Sept. 11, Don DeLillo's America may assist many readers in making sense of a newly uncertain world.
archive.salon.com /people/bc/2001/10/23/delillo   (0 words)

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