Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including┬аZero K,┬аUnderworld,┬аFalling Man,┬аWhite Noise, and┬аLibra. He has won 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. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize.┬аThe Angel Esmeralda┬аwas a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.