We always spoke English and Italian all mixed up together. There were eleven of us in a small house, but the close quarters were never a problem. I could think up games for hours at a time. As a little boy I whiled away most of my time pretending to be a baseball announcer on the radio. Reflecting on his childhood in The Bronx, DeLillo said he was "always out in the street. I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us." ĭeLillo was born on November 20, 1936, in New York City and grew up in a working-class Italian Catholic family with ties to Molise, Italy, in an Italian-American neighborhood of the Bronx not far from Arthur Avenue. It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments. ĭeLillo had described his fiction as concerned with "living in dangerous times", and in a 2005 interview he said that writers "must oppose systems. DeLillo has twice been a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (for Mao II in 1992 and for Underworld in 1998), won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II in 1992 (receiving another PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for The Angel Esmeralda in 2012), won the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, was granted the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013. White Noise was followed in 1988 by Libra, a bestseller. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism.ĭeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and won him the National Book Award for fiction. Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist.
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