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Acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Don DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 1997, he published the bestselling Underworld, and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. DeLillo is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- Westchester County, New York
- Date of Birth:
- November 20, 1936
- Place of Birth:
- New York City
- Education:
- Fordham University, 1958
