Author

Books by Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo was born in 1936 in the Bronx, New York, to Italian immigrant parents. He began publishing fiction in the 1960s and established himself as a major American novelist with Americana (1971) and Ratner's Star (1976). White Noise (1985) won the National Book Award. His subsequent novel Libra (1988), about the Kennedy assassination, and Underworld (1997), widely considered his masterwork, cemented his reputation as one of the defining novelists of American life. His work is characterized by its attention to media, violence, celebrity, and the hum of late capitalism. He was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Award in 2010.