National Book Foundation to Award Novelist Don DeLillo for Lifetime Achievement

Sep 02, 2015

The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, will award its 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Don DeLillo at the 66th National Book Awards Ceremony on Nov. 18. 

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan will present the medal to DeLillo, who is being honored for a diverse body of work that examines the mores of contemporary modern American culture, according to the Foundation’s board of directors. The author has written fifteen novels and a novella, including the National Book Award Winner White Noise; two National Book Award Finalists, Libra and Underworld, and the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Mao II. DeLillo has also published a collection of short stories, several plays, and a screenplay. His past honors include the Library of Congress’s Prize for American Fiction and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award. 

DeLillo, who is the 28th recipient of the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL), joins the ranks of past winners that include Judy Blume, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, and John Updike, among many more. 

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