Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including "Falling Man, Libra" and "White Noise", and three plays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2006, "Underworld" was named one of the three best novels of the last twenty-five years by "The New York Times Book Review", and in 2000 it won the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction of the past five years.