Don DeLillo

American novelist who is the foremost literary anatomist of postmodern American culture — its systems, media, violence, and death anxiety.

White Noise: fear of death, the 'airborne toxic event,' the family in the age of media oversaturation — the most important American novel of the 1980s. Underworld: 9-inch narrative spanning 1951-1992 through the Cold War. Libra: Lee Harvey Oswald as a figure of conspiracy and chance. The novel as a form against the noise of media.