Libra (novel)

Libra

First edition
Author	Don DeLillo
Language	English
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	15 August 1988
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	458 pp
ISBN	0-670-82317-1
OCLC	17510108
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3554.E4425 L53 1988

Libra is a 1988 novel by Don DeLillo that describes the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and his participation in a fictional CIA conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. The novel blends historical fact with fictional supposition.

Libra received critical acclaim and earned DeLillo the inaugural Irish Times International Fiction Prize, as well as a nomination for the 1988 National Book Award for Fiction.