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In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Soul
Vast
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Lonely
Standing
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