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BIOGRAPHY DeLillo was born in Bronx , New York City in a family of Italian immigrants and attended Fordham University . His family name was apparently partially anglicized, as the correct Italian spelling of it would be "De Lillo." There are no specific elements in his fiction that connect to Italian culture, and unlike other Italian-American authors such as Mario Puzo or John Fante he does not focus to any extended degree on his Italian origins (though some such material appears in his magnum opus, ''Underworld''). As a teenager, DeLillo wasn't interested in writing until taking a summer job as a parking attendant, when spending hours waiting and watching over vehicles led to a reading habit. DeLillo is widely considered by modern critics to be one of the central figures of literary Postmodernism . Many younger English-language authors such as Bret Easton Ellis and David Foster Wallace cite DeLillo as an influence. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon , Philip Roth , and Cormac McCarthy . DeLillo was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize . WORKS Fiction
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The plays have been produced by the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts , and other venues. DeLillo has also published a number of essays and short stories. ''Love-Lies-Bleeding'' will be produced for the first time at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in april 2006 and in late spring, early summer in Washington, DC. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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