DeLillo

[duh-lee-loh]

noun

1. Don, born 1936, U.S. novelist.

Example Sentences

With titans such as Pynchon and DeLillo in their late 80s, now comes a generation captained by Ed Park, whose capacious, zany “Same Bed Different Dreams” won the Los Angeles Times fiction prize and was a Pulitzer finalist.

From Los Angeles Times

And to ask that of DeLillo, who by the time of that interview had poured out almost a dozen novels in a torrent of productivity, probing his interests in everything from sports to mathematics to the inflection points of the American century … well, no wonder the man had a reputation for being paranoid.

From New York Times

In fact, despite all of DeLillo’s fascination with terrorism and death cults and the impotence of the individual swept up in unstoppable social forces, I’ve never considered him to be an especially paranoid writer.

From New York Times

DeLillo’s prose often summons this kind of music, whether he’s writing about nuclear annihilation or the Zapruder film or mass media or Hitler’s sex life.

From New York Times

But those early books are also marred by a shaggy, frenetic jokiness and a sense that DeLillo was still finding his way.

From New York Times