Презентация на тему White Noise Don Delillo

grew up in a working-class Italian Catholic family
As a

teenager took a summer job as a parking attendant
He read and was inspired by James Joyce, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Ernest Hemingway
He graduated from  Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx in 1954 and from Fordham University in the Bronx with a bachelor's degree in Communication Arts in 1958
He worked as a copywriter
in 1975 he got married
Later on he and his wife moved to Greece, where they lived for 3 years

Fellowship.
1984 – Award in Literature from the American Academy and

Institute of Arts and Letters
1985 – National Book Award (Fiction) for White Noise[25]
1985 – National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Fiction, 1985) for White Noise
1988 – National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Fiction, 1988) for Libra
1988 – New York Times Best Books of the Year (1988) for Libra
1988 – National Book Award finalist (Fiction) for Libra[28]
1989 – Irish Times, Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize for Libra
1992 – PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II
1992 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction nomination for Mao II
1995 – Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award
1997 – National Book Award finalist (Fiction) for Underworld[31]
1997 – National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Fiction, 1997) for Underworld
1997 – New York Times Best Books of the Year nominee for Underworld
1998 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction nomination for Underworld
1998 – American Book Award for Underworld
1999 – Jerusalem Prize
1999 – IMPAC Award shortlist for Underworld
2000 – William Dean Howells Medal awarded for Underworld
2000 – "Riccardo Bacchelli" International Award for Underworld
2001 – James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist (Fiction, 2001) for The Body Artist
2003 – IMPAC Award longlist for The Body Artist
2006 – New York Times: Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years (Runner-Up) for Underworld
2007 – New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Fiction and Poetry) for Falling Man
2007 – Booklist Top of the List: A Best of Editors Choice for Falling Man
2007 – Nominee for Man Booker International Prize
2009 – Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service for achievements in literature
2009 – IMPAC Award longlist for Falling Man
2010 – St. Louis Literary Award
2010 – PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction[64]
2011 – New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011 list for The Angel Esmeralda
2012 – The Story Prize finalist for The Angel Esmeralda
2012 – PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist for The Angel Esmeralda
2012 – Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award longlist for The Angel Esmeralda
2012 – Carl Sandburg Literary Award
2012 – IMPAC Award longlist for Point Omega
2013 – Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction [Inaugural award]
2014 - Norman Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement

the Jerusalem Prize
The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in

American Fiction in 2010
The first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013

Major awards:

Man (2007)

Short story collection:
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories (2011)