Don DeLillo

**Don DeLillo** (20.11. 1936.) je američki pisac najpoznatiji po romanima koji daju detaljnu sliku života u Americi krajem 20. i na početku 21. vijeka. Trenutno živi u okolici New Yorka.

## Biografija
Don DeLillo rodio se u Bronxu kao dijete italijanskih imigranata. Pisanjem se nije bavio sve dok nije upisao Univerzitet Fordham, a preko ljeta počeo raditi kao čuvar parkirališta. Pisanje mu je bio jedini način da prekrati dosadu, a nakon diplome je radio u reklamnoj agenciji.

Svoj prvi roman pod nazivom Americana je objavio 1971. godine. Četiri godine kasnije se oženio za Barbaru Bennett, dizajnericu dvorišta. S njom je neko vrijeme živio u Grčkoj. Široj je javnosti postao poznat hvaljenim romanom *[[White Noise (roman)|White Noise]]*, a godine 1997. mu je izašao Underworld koji se smatra njegovim najpoznatijim djelom. Njegov posljednji roman, Falling Man, posvećen je napadima 11. septembra.

## Djela
### Romani
* *[[Americana (roman)|Americana]]* (1971)
* *[[End Zone (roman)|End Zone]]* (1972)
* *[[Great Jones Street (roman)|Great Jones Street]]* (1973)
* *[[Ratner's Star]]* (1976)
* *[[Players (roman)|Players]]* (1977)
* *[[Running Dog]]* (1978)
* *[[Amazons (roman)|Amazons]]* (1980) (under pseudonym "Cleo Birdwell")
* *[[The Names]]* (1982)
* *[[White Noise (roman)|White Noise]]* (1985)
* *[[Libra (roman)|Libra]]* (1988)
* *[[Mao II]]* (1991)
* *[[Underworld (DeLillov roman)|Underworld]]* (1997) (*v. također* *[[Pafko at the Wall (pripovjetka)|Pafko at the Wall]]*, *Underworlda* koji je zasebno izdan godine 2001.)
* *[[The Body Artist]]* (2001)
* *[[Cosmopolis]]* (2003)
* *[[Falling Man (roman)|Falling Man]]* (2007)

### Drame
* *[[The Day Room (drama|The Day Room]]* (praizvedba 1986)
* *[[Valparaiso (drama)|Valparaiso]]* (praizvedba 1999)
* *[[Love-Lies-Bleeding (drama)|Love-Lies-Bleeding]]* (praizvedba 2005)
* *[[The Word for Snow (drama)|The Word for Snow]]* (praizvedba 2007)

### Scenariji
* *[[Game 6 (film)|Game 6]]* (2005)

*[[Game 6 (film)|Game 6]]*, priča o dramatičaru (igra ga Michael Keaton) i njegovoj opsesiji s Boston Red Soxima i World Seriesom 1986. godine, napisana je ranih 1990-ih, ali je izvedena tek 2005, točno godinu dana kada su Red Sox osvojili prvu titulu World Seriesa u 86 godina. To je dosada jedina ekranizacija nekog DeLillovog djela.

### Knjige o DeLillou
* Bloom, Harold (ur.), *Don DeLillo (Bloom's Major Novelists)*, Chelsea House, 2003.
* Boxall, Peter, *Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction*, Routledge, 2006.
* Civello, Paul, *American Literary Naturalism and its Twentieth-century Transformations: Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo*, University of Georgia Press, 1994.
* Cowart, David, *Don DeLillo - The Physics of Language*, University of Georgia Press, 2002.
* Dewey, Joseph, *Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo*, University of South Carolina Press, 2006.
* Dewey, Joseph (ur.), Kellman, Steven G. (ed.), Malin, Irving (ed.), *Underwords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld*, University of Delaware Press, 2002.
* Duvall, John, *Don DeLillo's Underworld: A Reader's Guide*, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002.
* Engles, Tim (ur.), Duvall, John (ur.) ,*Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise*, Modern Language Association Press, 2006.
* Halldorson, Stephanie, *The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction: The Works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo*, 2007.
* Hantke, Steffen, *Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary American Fiction: The works of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy*, Peter Lang Publishing, 1994.
* Kavadlo, Jesse, *Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief*, Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.
* Keesey, Douglas, *Don DeLillo*, Macmillan, 1993.
* LeClair, Tom *In the Loop - Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel*, University of Illinois Press, 1987.
* Lentricchia, Frank (ur.), *Introducing Don DeLillo*, Duke University Press, 1991.
* Lentricchia, Frank (ur.), *New Essays on White Noise*, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
* Orr, Leonard, *White Noise: A Reader's Guide* Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003.
* Osteen, Mark *American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture*, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
* Ruppersburg, Hugh (ur.), Engles, Tim (ur.), *Critical Essays on Don DeLillo*, G.K. Hall, 2000.
* Weinstein, Arnold, *Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction From Hawthorne to DeLillo*, Oxford University Press, 1993.

## Reference

## Vanjske veze
* Author interview in Guernica Magazine (guernicamag.com)
* Extensive DeLillo bibliography
* Don DeLillo papers  archived at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
* ''The New Yorker'' magazine discussion on the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in which Mr. DeLillo discusses writing.
* Literary Encyclopedia Biography
* Don DeLillo Society
* Don DeLillo's America - Comprehensive page with a biography, reviews, works, interviews, and literary criticism (and the Bibliography above).