Don DeLillo Don DeLillo (Nueva York, 20 de noviembre de 1936) es un escritor estadounidense conocido por sus novelas que retratan la vida de su país a finales del siglo XX y principios del XXI. Es considerado por la crítica especializada como una de las figuras centrales del posmodernismo literario. Trayectoria[editar] Hijo de una familia de inmigrantes italianos, DeLillo nació en el barrio neoyorkino del Bronx. Su casa la habitaban once personas y, como él mismo recuerda, se lo pasaba "todo el tiempo en la calle";[1] cuenta también que su abuela, que vivió cincuenta años en Estados Unidos, nunca aprendió inglés. Estudió en la Universidad de Fordham, del Bronx, en donde se graduó en 1958. DeLillo trabajó cinco años en la agencia literaria Ogilvy & Mather. El reconocimiento como escritor le llegó con la novela White Noise (que significa "ruido blanco" pero fue traducida al castellano como Ruido de fondo), publicada en 1985. Obras[editar] Novelas[editar] Recopilaciones de cuentos[editar] Ensayos[editar]
Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate. His first novel was The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948. His best work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Mailer's book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award. Along with the likes of Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the style and devices of literary fiction onto fact-based journalism. Mailer was also known for his essays, the most renowned of which was The White Negro. In 1955, Mailer and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village. Early life[edit] Novels[edit]
Philip K. Dick Personal life[edit] The family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. When Philip turned five, his father was transferred to Reno, Nevada. When Dorothy refused to move, she and Joseph divorced. Both parents fought for custody of Philip, which was awarded to the mother. From 1948 to 1952, Dick worked at Art Music Company, a record store on Telegraph Avenue. Dick was married five times: Jeanette Marlin (May to November 1948)Kleo Apostolides (June 14, 1950 to 1959)Anne Williams Rubinstein (April 1, 1959 to October 1965)Nancy Hackett (July 6, 1966 to 1972)Leslie (Tessa) Busby (April 18, 1973 to 1977) Dick had three children, Laura Archer (February 25, 1960), Isolde Freya (now Isa Dick Hackett) (March 15, 1967), and Christopher Kenneth (July 25, 1973). Dick tried to stay off the political scene because of the high societal turmoil from the Vietnam War; however, he did show some anti-Vietnam War and anti-governmental sentiments. Career[edit] Paranormal experiences and mental health issues[edit]
Stéphane Hessel Biografía[editar] Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Hessel participó como diplomático en la redacción de la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos.[5] . El 15 de marzo de 2009, durante la convención nacional de los comités locales de Europe Écologie en París, junto Cohn-Bendit y José Bové, Stéphane Hessel anunciaba su voluntad de apoyar las listas del partido para las elecciones europeas de junio de 2009, con "la esperanza de ver surgir una izquierda impertinente con peso", que a la postre obtuvo un excelente resultado colocándose como tercera fuerza nacional con el 16,28% de los votos y 13 eurodiputados. Desde entonces su compromiso con la formación continuó, apoyándola también en los comicios regionales de 2010.[6] El diplomático y escritor falleció en la noche del 27 de febrero de 2013 a los 95 años de edad.[7] Publicaciones[editar] ¡Indignaos! Su libro ¡Indignaos! ¡Comprometeos! ¡Comprometeos! Mi baile con el siglo[editar] Condecoraciones[editar] Véase también[editar] Referencias[editar]
James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Baldwin's essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.[1] Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). Early life[edit] When Baldwin was an infant, his mother, Emma Berdis Jones, divorced his father amid his drug abuse and moved to the Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. There, she married a preacher, David Baldwin. The family was very poor. James spent much time caring for his several younger brothers and sisters. His stepfather died of tuberculosis in summer of 1943 soon before James turned 19. Schooling[edit] Religion[edit] Greenwich Village[edit]
PSYTECH David Foster Wallace Los Angeles Times book editor David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years".[1] With his suicide, he left behind an unfinished novel, The Pale King, which was subsequently published in 2011, and in 2012 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, which was not awarded that year.[4] A biography of Wallace by D. T. Max, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, was published in September 2012.[5] Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, the son of Sally Jean (née Foster) and James Donald Wallace.[6] In his early childhood, Wallace lived in Champaign, Illinois.[7] In fourth grade, he moved to Urbana and attended Yankee Ridge school and Urbana High School. Family[edit] Wallace's father, James D. In the early 1990s, Wallace had a relationship with the poet and memoirist Mary Karr. Death[edit] Work[edit] Career[edit] David Foster Wallace giving a reading for Booksmith at San Francisco's All Saints Church in 2006
Thomas MacDermot Thomas MacDermot (1870-1933) was a Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor, editing the Jamaica Times for over twenty years. He was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture".[1] Biography[edit] Thomas MacDermot was born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, of Irish ancestry. He worked to promote Jamaican literature through all of his writing, starting a weekly short story contest in the Jamaica Times in 1899. Notable among the young writers he helped and encouraged is Claude McKay.[1] In 1903, he started the All Jamaica Library, a series of novellas and short stories written by Jamaicans about Jamaica that were reasonably priced to encourage local readers. MacDermot retired because of illness in 1922. Bibliography[edit] Becka's Buckra Baby (1903), Times Printery, Jamaica.One Brown Girl And ¼ (1909), Times Printery, Jamaica.Orange Valley and Other Poems (1951), Kingston, Jamaica: Pioneer Press. References[edit]