DeLillo was born on November 20, 1936, in New York City and grew up in an Italian Catholic family with ties to Molise, Italy, in an Italian-American neighborhood of the Bronx not far from Arthur Avenue. Reflecting on his … See more

1970s
DeLillo's inaugural decade of novel writing has been his most productive to date, resulting in the writing and publication of six novels between 1971 and 1978.
DeLillo resigned from the advertising industry in 1964, … See more

In film
• In The Proposal (2009), the Canadian-born editor in chief of a New York publisher risks deportation to meet DeLillo at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
• In The Matrix Resurrections, the character Thomas … See more

• 1979 – Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1984 – Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
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Since 1979, in addition to his novels and occasional essays, DeLillo has been active as a playwright. To date, DeLillo has written five major plays: The Engineer of Moonlight … See more

DeLillo's work displays elements of both modernism and postmodernism. (Though it is worth noting that DeLillo himself claims not to know if his work is postmodern: "It is not … See more

Novels
• Americana (1971)
• End Zone (1972)
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