Don DeLillo (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The author of challenging novels about contemporary mass culture, Don DeLillo (duh-LIHL-oh) is among the most important American fiction writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Born and raised in the Bronx in New York City, he received a B.A. from Fordham University in 1958. Details of his life from then until the publication of Americana in 1971 are sketchy at best, as DeLillo guarded his privacy and granted few interviews. His first published story appeared in 1960, and during the subsequent decade six additional short stories appeared in such major literary...
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