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3	->''"In the 1970s, when I started writing novels, I was a figure in the margins, and that's where I belonged. If I'm headed back that way, that's fine with me, because that's always where I felt I belonged. Things changed for me in the 1980s and 1990s, but I've always preferred to be somewhere in the corner of a room, observing."''
4	-->--From the 2010 ''The Sunday Times'' interview
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6	Donald Richard [=DeLillo=] (born November 20, 1936) is an American author of several acclaimed novels. They were noted for painting a detailed portrait of American life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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8	The literary critic Harold Bloom has distinguished him as one of the four greatest American novelists of his time, along with Creator/ThomasPynchon, Creator/CormacMcCarthy and Creator/PhilipRoth.
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11	!! Bibliography
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13	[[index]]
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16	[[folder:Novels]]
17	* ''Americana'' (1971)
18	* ''End Zone'' (1972)
19	* ''Great Jones Street'' (1973)
20	* ''Ratner's Star'' (1976)
21	* ''Players'' (1977)
22	* ''Running Dog'' (1978)
23	* ''The Names'' (1982)
24	* ''Literature/{{White Noise\|1985}}'' (1985)
25	* ''{{Literature/Libra}}'' (1988)
26	* ''Mao II'' (1991)
27	* ''[[Literature/Underworld1997 Underworld]]'' (1997)
28	* ''The Body Artist'' (2001)
29	* ''Cosmopolis'' (2003)
30	* ''Falling Man'' (2007)
31	* ''Point Omega'' (2010)
32	* ''Zero K'' (2016)
33	* ''Literature/TheSilence'' (2020)
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36	[[folder:Short stories collection]]
37	* ''The Angel Esmeralda'' (2011)
38	[[/folder]]
39	[[/index]]
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42	!! Tropes found in his works:
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44	* BeigeProse: [=DeLillo's=] later works, beginning with ''The Body Artist'' and onwards, are these.
45	* BlackComedy: A major staple in his work.
46	* {{Doorstopper}}: [=DeLillo=] wrote only one long novel, ''[[Literature/Underworld1997 Underworld]]'', and lo, it's extremely long, clocking at 827 pages. Even several highbrow critics agree that it's too long.
47	* FakeRealTurn: In ''{{Literature/Libra}}'', this is how the assassination of JFK happened. It started as a false flag operation to fake a failed assassination attempt but became real through a process that will never be fully understood.

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