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Don DeLillo

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    (November 20, 1936- )
    Born in The Bronx, New York
    Wrote the novels ‘White Noise’ (1985), ‘Libra’ (1988), ‘Mao II’ (1991), ‘Underworld’ (1997), ‘The Body Artist’ (2001), ‘Cosmopolis’ (2003), ‘Falling Man’ (2007) and ‘Point Omega’ (2010)

Why he might be annoying:

    He said about his decision to leave his job as an advertising copywriter, ‘I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work any more.’
    His acceptance speech when ‘White Noise’ won the National Book Award was, ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t be here tonight, but I thank you all for coming.’
    George Will called ‘Libra’ – a fictionalized life of Lee Harvey Oswald -- ‘an act of literary vandalism and bad citizenship.’
    His post-‘Underworld’ novels have generally been viewed as somewhat disappointing compared to his ‘80s and ‘90s works.
    He does not use email.
    A hoaxster set up a fake Twitter account in his name (2013).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He said the influences on his writing include jazz music, European films and abstract expressionist art.
    He made one his few public appearances at an authors’ reading organized by PEN and the Authors’ Guild to support Salman Rushdie.
    In response to critics complaining that he abandoned his earlier epic style, he said ‘A novel creates its own structure and develops its own terms…. I never try to stretch what I sense is a compact book.’
    Critic Harold Bloom called him one of the four major contemporary American novelists, along with Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy.

Credit: C. Fishel


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    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 13 Votes: 30.77% Annoying