Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He has published four plays and fifteen novels, among the best known of which are White Noise (1985), Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), Underworld (1997), and Falling Man (2007). White Noise won a National Book Award, and Underworld was the runner-up in a 2006 poll of major writers about the best books in the past half-century conducted by the New York Times (after Toni Morrison's Beloved).