High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an Italian-American author, playwright and occasional essayist whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. DeLillo's novels have tackled subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, and global terrorism. He currently lives near New York City in the suburb of Bronxville.