Don DeLillo

Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) 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 1985 when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He fo…