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Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In October 2012, DeLillo receives the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.

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Excerpt:
Chapter 2 from The Angel Esmeralda
Feb 02, 2013
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on October 02, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Oct 02, 2012
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 02, 2012
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Sep 07, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Body Artist
Aug 02, 2012
Cosmopolis is now available in Trade Paperback, Compact Disk
Jun 26, 2012
Cosmopolis will be released on June 26, 2012 in Trade Paperback, Compact Disk
Jun 26, 2012
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on November 15, 2011 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on November 15, 2011 in eBook
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in eBook
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on November 15, 2011 in Compact Disk, Audio Download, eAudio
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in Compact Disk, Audio Download, eAudio
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda will be released on November 15, 2011 in Compact Disk
Nov 15, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda is now available in Compact Disk
Nov 15, 2011
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Excerpt 1 from The Angel Esmeralda
Nov 12, 2011

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New York Times, April 19, 2013
...Crimson to his final writings for The New York Review of Books. It includes reflections on Joan Didion, Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison, as well as tributes to Leonard by friends and colleagues. INSIDE, by Alix Ohlin. (Vintage Contemporaries, $15.) Set in...
New York Times, April 18, 2013
...down of a book. Who are your favorite novelists? Dickens, Austen, Wharton, Faulkner. Among living people, Alice McDermott, Don DeLillo, Russell Banks. I also really like Theodore Dreiser and Ford Madox Ford and John Galsworthy. Its sad, the excellent...
The Olympian, April 17, 2013
...to cause, reason, event." This wide-angle focus, this sense of fiction as not just interior - what Don DeLillo, whom Kushner cites as an influence, has derided as the "around-the-house-and-in-the-yard" approach - but also social, marks "The...
Telegraph, April 16, 2013
...be acclaimed as one of the great contemporary American novelists, alongside authors like Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy and Don DeLillo. Jon Howells, from Waterstones, added: This is the strongest shortlist of any major book award in recent years. With so...
Guardian.co.uk, April 16, 2013
...be acclaimed as one of the great contemporary American novelists, alongside authors like Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy and Don DeLillo. May We Be Forgiven is poignant, blackly humorous and a ground-breaking portrait of an America turning to nostalgia,...
New York Times, April 15, 2013
...Murakami feels it necessary to exercise like a marathoner in order to sustain his novel-writing momentum. Or that Don DeLillo once typed each paragraph on its own piece of paper. I had, for a long time, a profound vulnerability to hearing about these...
Huffington Post Canada, April 14, 2013
...National Mall, has some big name authors confirmed to parti... Read more: Margaret Atwood National Book Festival , Video , Don Delillo , Don DeLillo National Book Festival , 2013 National Book Festival , Which Authors Will Be at the 2013 National Book...
Seven Days Vermont, January 18, 2013
...It Despite the Pattinson factor and the smaller (but committed) fan bases of director David Cronenberg and novelist Don DeLillo, on whose book it is based, Cosmopolis only reached 65 U.S. theaters. Should You Keep Missing It? Watching Cosmopolis...
Capital Times, January 18, 2013
...David Cronenberg’s "Cosmopolis," a faithful adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel, is, much like its protagonist, a sleek and strange creature...
Capital Times, January 18, 2013
...David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis,” a faithful adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel, is, much like its protagonist, a sleek and strange creature...
San Francisco Chronicle, January 17, 2013
...written when he was 15 years old), Kenneth Fuchs’ set of “Falling Canons,” inspired by texts drawn from Don DeLillo’s 9/11 novel, Falling Man, and David Neal Lewis’ “Tale of Three Kitties.” The music flows seamlessly from one genre to...
Washingtonian.com, January 17, 2013
...song I started the night before and finished after, “World Inside the World.” It’s inspired by that Don DeLillo novel Underworld, and the idea that there’s a world inside of the world. I took that and turned it into a song, and it’s the one I...
University of Birmingham, January 17, 2013
...recent-ish novels to help think about why you can’t separate literature from history or history from literature: Don DeLillo, Libra (1988) Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days (2001) EL Doctorow, The March (2005) Dana Spiotta, Eat The Document...
Portland Mercury, January 16, 2013
...want to hire writers. As a writer, that would terrify me. I would hope Watson would not replace Don DeLillo or Philip Roth...