Writing

Don DeLillo

Born

1936-11-20 (89)

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

5 titles

IMDb profile

Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports. DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the Kennedy assassination. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean H…

Known for

4.6

Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.

Game 6

2006

A performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago.

Nelson Algren Live

2016

The story is adapted from Baader-Meinhof by Don DeLillo and depicts the mysterious meeting between a woman and a man in an art gallery.

Looking at the dead

2011

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DeLillo uses the documentary form to explore the relationships between gunmen and the novelist, words and images, the power of news and the obsession with apocalypse.

Don DeLillo: The Word, The Image, and The Gun

1991

After a poem by Emily Dickinson. A collage disaster film and experiment with various zones of materiality: ice, lava, land, sea, and sky. All found footage lifted from the internet.

Never Seen Volcanoes

2024

Film credits

2020s · 1 titles