Don DeLillo is the author of Underworld, a sweeping novel of the last half-century that earned DeLillo the coveted William Dean Howells Medal. Salman Rushdie wrote "Underworld is a magnificent book by an American master." DeLillo won the National Book Award for his earlier novel White Noise, and the Pen/Faulkner for Mao II. Cosmopolis takes place over the course of one day as financier Eric Packer crosses Manhattan in a limousine, encountering various women and anti-capitalist protesters while being stalked by a former employee.