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 donald richard delillo novelist
don delillo

donald richard `` don '' delillo -lrb- born november 20 , 1936 -rrb- is an american novelist , playwright and essayist .
his works have covered subjects as diverse as television , nuclear war , sports , the complexities of language , performance art , the cold war , mathematics , the advent of the digital age , politics , economics , and global terrorism .
initially a well-regarded cult writer , the publication in 1985 of `` white noise '' brought him widespread recognition , and was followed in 1988 by `` libra '' , a bestseller .
delillo has twice been a pulitzer prize for fiction finalist -lrb- for `` mao ii '' in 1992 and for `` underworld '' in 1998 -rrb- , won the pen/faulkner award for `` mao ii '' in 1992 -lrb- receiving a further pen/faulkner award nomination for `` the angel esmeralda '' in 2012 -rrb- , was granted the pen/saul bellow award for achievement in american fiction in 2010 , and won the library of congress prize for american fiction in 2013 .
delillo has described his fiction as being concerned with `` living in dangerous times '' , and in a 2005 interview declared , `` writers must oppose systems .
it 's important to write against power , corporations , the state , and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments -lsb- ... -rsb- i think writers , by nature , must oppose things , oppose whatever power tries to impose on us . ''
