Facts about Don DeLillo

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   Mao II, Don DeLillo's 1991 novel, centers on a reclusive American writer living on a Scottish island who becomes entangled with a radical political group during the final years of the Cold War.

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   Underworld, Don DeLillo's 1997 novel spanning from 1951 to 1992, opens with a 29-page depiction of the 1951 baseball playoff game between the Giants and Dodgers.

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   In 2003, Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis featured a 48-hour journey through Manhattan by a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager during a period of global financial and social upheaval.

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   Libra, Don DeLillo's 1988 novel, features Lee Harvey Oswald as a protagonist and explores the assassin's psychological interior through 456 pages of meticulously researched historical fiction.

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   Published in 1985, White Noise by Don DeLillo won the National Book Award for Fiction and established him as a major American novelist.

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