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I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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