Libra

About the author

Don DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written eleven 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 (1991), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Other novels include Americana , End Zone, and Great Jones Street, all available from Penguin.

In 1997 he published the bestselling Underworld. In 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. Don DeLillo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.