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She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
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Playwright
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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