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Don DeLillo

By Mark Flanagan, About.com

About Don DeLillo:
Don DeLillo is the author of thirteen novels, including "Underworld," "Libra," "White Noise," and "Cosmopolis." He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Jerusalem Prize.
From Don DeLillo:
"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. The writer is the man or woman who automatically takes a stance against his or her government. There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."
Nationality:
American
Genre(s):
Novels
Recent Work:
Cosmopolis, 2003
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