Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright and essayist whose work ranges across consumerism, nuclear war, sport, art and the digital age. He is best known for White Noise, which won the National Book Award for fiction, and for Underworld, a historical novel that runs from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. His novel Libra imagines the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and Mao II follows terrorism and the scrutiny of writers' private lives.