Geoff dyer don delillo biography

"I became a writer by living in New York and seeing and hearing and feeling all the great, amazing and dangerous things the city endlessly assembles.

And I also became a writer by avoiding serious commitment to anything else." --DeLillo to Jonathan Bing, 1997

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This biography is largely an oral auto-biography, stitched together from the various interviews. All the passages below that are in quotes are from DeLillo himself, and the other text is from the interviewer noted below each entry.

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"I was born on Nov.

20, 1936." Except for a short stint in Pennsylvania when he was quite young, he was brought up in the Fordham section of the Bronx, a neighborhood of mostly Italian- Americans.
(from Passaro, 1991)

"My parents were born in Italy.

Don delillo

My father came to this country in 1916, I believe, when he was a young boy of nine. There was my grandmother, my father and his brothers and sisters. There was a total of about seven people, including a dw