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Cleo Birdwell | | Birth Date: |
November 20, 1936 | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Don DeLillo
13,504 words, approx. 45 pages
 Over the past twenty-five years, Don DeLillo has established himself as one of the most important contemporary American novelists. Prolific and wide-ranging, he has published ten major novels that rework a variety of narrative genres, creating... summary from source:
Biography of Don DeLillo
3,469 words, approx. 12 pages
Don DeLillo writes novels that are loose-knit fabrications of the tensions, preoccupations, and manias of modern America. His books are usually shaped around a central character whose behavior is a means of defending against the stresses in his life.... 
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 Don DeLillo Quotes
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 Don DeLillo (born November 20 1936 ) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Sourced The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Delillo, Don
348 words, approx. 1 pages(born Nov. 20, 1936, New York, N.Y., U.S.) American novelist whose postmodernist works portray the anomie of an America cosseted by material excess and stupefied by empty mass culture and politics. After his graduation from Fordham University, New York... summary from source:
Delillo, Don
106 words, approx. 1 pages(born Nov. 20, 1936, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. novelist. Born to immigrant parents, DeLillo worked in advertising before beginning to write seriously. His postmodernist works portray the unrest and alienation of an America cosseted by material excess... summary from source:
 Don DeLillo Information
1,904 words, approx. 6 pages
Don DeLillo (born November 20 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives in New York...
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 CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Don DeLillo. (book reviews)
06/22/1994: 722 words, approx. 2 pages In keeping with the tradition of the Twayne series, Keesey's study of Don DeLillo provides the reader with a solid and clear interpretation of DeLillo's major works. Keesey's approach to DeLillo rightly emphasizes the themes of consumerism, media culture, and language. For Keesey,... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Free Advice For Don Delillo
09/27/1988: 720 words, approx. 2 pages Northeastern University savante Cecelia Tichi reviews Don DeLillo's "Libra" in the October Boston Review, and it is the very model of the modern book review . . . DeLillo is encouraged to return to novels and, en passant, Tom Wolfe to get back to... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Monday, September 24th
9/18/2007: 257 words, approx. 1 pagesWomen of New York emit a mighty mass moan as George Clooney arrives at the Ziegfeld for the premiere of Michael Clayton, his new film about a corporate law firm in New York. (And pssst: It’s good!) Also present: his never-aging co-star Tilda Swinton, who’s... summary from source:
The New York Observer DeLillo\'d5s 9/11 Resists Gravity
5/8/2007: 580 words, approx. 2 pagesFALLING MANBy Don DeLillo Scribner, 256 pages, $26 Don DeLillo already owned the Twin Towers—in 1997, he chose for the cover of Underworld a haunting Kertesz photograph of the World Trade Center looming in the murk, disappearing up into cloud, a soaring pigeon standing in...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Paul Maltby
7,323 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Maltby identifies Romantic qualities of the “visionary moment” in White Noise, The Names, and Libra, comparing those qualities to the critical consensus that characterizes DeLillo's works as quintessentially postmodern writing.
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Critical Essay by Christian Moraru
6,462 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Moraru explores the ways DeLillo's novels thematize the contemporary production and reception of narrative art, focusing on readers' “negative” or “distorted” responses to the texts.
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John A. McClure
6,178 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, McClure examines novelist Don DeLillo's adaptation of popular novels of different genres, including science fiction, espionage, and occult adventures.
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