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American novelist, playwright, and essayist (born )

Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, ) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist.

His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.

DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in , when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction.

He followed this in with Libra, a novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's 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.^[1][2] He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, the PEN/Saul Bel