Don DeLillo
American novelist, playwright and essayist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1936 · age 89
Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics and sports.
Don DeLillo is read about 777 times a day, in 45 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 8 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 410 days, one point a day.
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2013Library of Congress Prize for American FictionAward2012Carl Sandburg Literary AwardAward2000William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and LettersAward1999Jerusalem PrizeAward1998American Book AwardsAward1992PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionAward1985National Book Award for FictionAward1936Born20 November 1936
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Vladimir Nabokov Influenced Don
William Faulkner Influenced Don
Henry James Influenced Don
J. G. Ballard Influenced Don
Malcolm Lowry Influenced Don
David Cronenberg Directed Cosmopolis (2012)
Chuck Palahniuk Influenced by Don
Bret Easton Ellis Influenced by Don
Jonathan Franzen Influenced by Don
Noah Baumbach Directed White Noise (2022)
Jonathan Lethem Influenced by Don
Colum McCann Influenced by Don
Benoît Jacquot Directed Never Ever (2016)
Michael Hoffman Directed Game 6 (2006)
Michael Almereyda Directed Zero K
Rachel Kushner Influenced by Don
Theodore Melfi Directed Underworld
Paulo Branco Produced Cosmopolis (2012)
Alex Ross Perry Directed The Names
Joshua Ferris Influenced by Don
Amy Robinson Produced Game 6 (2006)
Shelley Jackson Influenced by Don
Jean-Gabriel Périot Directed Looking at the dead (2011)- Bradford Morrow Influenced by Don
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Country
United States
Category
Writers
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Born 1936 · age 89
