Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra, and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld.

In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.