Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo (born November 20 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives in New York City.

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November 20 - 1936 - American - Author - Novel - 20th - 21st centuries - New York City

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DeLillo is widely considered by modern critics to be one of the central figures of literary postmodernism. Many younger English-language authors such as Bret Easton Ellis and David Foster Wallace cite DeLillo as an influence. DeLillo was an author attacked by B. R. Myers in "A Reader's Manifesto".

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Postmodernism - English-language - Bret Easton Ellis - David Foster Wallace - B. R. Myers - A Reader's Manifesto

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Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Cormac McCarthy.

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Harold Bloom - Thomas Pynchon - Philip Roth - Cormac McCarthy

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