Donald Richard DeLillo 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, mathematics, politics, economics, and baseball.
A professor of Hitler studies and his family face their own mortality when a toxic chemical spill forces them to confront the real, yet often invisible, threats of modern life.
After 9/11, a man emerges from the rubble, forever linked to his estranged wife and their son who watches the sky, all dealing with the personal effects of a national trauma.
A reclusive novelist leaves his quiet life to help release a hostage in Beirut, finding that the power to shape culture has moved from writing to violent acts, leaving his personal life in disarray.
In a secret compound where death is a choice and immortality a promise, a son confronts his billionaire father's pursuit of a technologically-resurrected future, making him face the beauty and terror of life in the present.
A body artist in a secluded coastal home deals with the memory of her dead film-director husband, blurring the lines between grief, performance, and the haunting persistence of memory.
A reclusive defense intellectual, haunted by his role in America's war machine, confronts the vast emptiness of the desert and the lingering human mysteries of his past when a filmmaker and his enigmatic daughter disrupt his solitary retreat.
An American businessman in ancient Greece stumbles into a secretive cult that ritually murders people based on the alphabet, all while dealing with his estranged family and the unsettling power of language.
Don DeLillo dissects the cultural and political effects of Bobby Thomson's 1951 'Shot Heard Round the World,' connecting the fates of characters from Jackie Gleason to J. Edgar Hoover at the Polo Grounds.
