DeLillo

[duh-lee-loh]

noun

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

Example Sentences

But his recent work, such as the Oscar-winning “Marriage Story,” the Don DeLillo adaptation “White Noise” and the box office sensation “Barbie,” which he co-wrote, have given him a newfound sense of scale: a boldness and bigness that truly blooms throughout “Jay Kelly.”

Read more on Los Angeles Times

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.

Read more on 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.

Read more on 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.

Read more on 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.

Read more on New York Times