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The dead have a presence.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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