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Don DeLillo, a current author today, is an American fictional writer of short stories, novels, plays, and essays. He was born and raised on November 20, 1936, in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City. His family, which consisted of eleven inhabitants, was a working-class Italian Catholic family from Molise, a region in Southern Italy. As a young child, DeLillo spent most of his time pretending to be a sports announcer on the radio for baseball. He was influenced by sports, cards, and billiards; it was not until his teenage years when he became interested in writing.
Due to reading during his summer job as a parking attendant, DeLillo developed an interest in writing. In addition, he said, “European and Asian cinemas of the 1960s shaped the way I think and feel about things.” According to this statement, DeLillo claimed that cinema and film had encouraged him to become a writer in an indirect fashion. Another supporter and encourager of DeLillo’s included both of his parents. DeLillo stated that, “They ultimately trusted me to follow the course I’d chosen. This is something that happens if you’re the eldest son in an Italian family: You get a certain leeway, and it worked in my case.”
After graduating from Cardinal Hayes High School in 1954 in the Bronx, DeLillo decided to go to Fordham University in the Bronx. Eventually, he graduated in 1958 with a bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts. Soon after, DeLillo acquired a job in advertising since he could not achieve one in publishing. For five years, he served as a copywriter for the agency of Ogilvy & Mather on Fifth Avenue at East 48th Street, making ads for Sears Roebuck, a multinational department store. In the year 1960, he published his first short story, “The River Jordan”, in the Epoch, which was the literary magazine of Cornell University. As DeLillo was commemorating his slow start towards fiction, he stated "I wish I had started earlier, but evidently I wasn’t ready. First, I lacked ambition. I may