Don DeLillo

Donald Richard DeLillo born November 20 1936 is an American novelist short story writer playwright screenwriter and essayist His works have covered subjects as diverse as television nuclear war the complexities of language art the advent of the Digital Age mathematics politics economics and sports DeLillo was already a wellregarded cult writer in 1985 when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction He followed this in 1988 with Libra a novel about the Kennedy assassination DeLillo won the PENFaulkner Award for Mao II about terrorism and the medias scrutiny of writers private lives and the William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize the 2010 PENSaul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010 and the 2013 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction