In one work by this author, injuries sustained from a taxi in Athens prevent a writer from exchanging himself as a hostage for Swiss poet Jean- Claude Julien in Beirut. In addition to that novel about Bill Gray, he described the journey of Bobby Thompson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" baseball and created waste management worker Nick Shay. In another novel, Willie Mink supplies Dylar tablets to Babette for her fear of death and Hitler Studies Professor Jack Gladney is exposed to the titular "Airborne Toxic Event". For 
In one work by this author, injuries sustained from a taxi in Athens prevent a writer from exchanging himself as a hostage for Swiss poet Jean- Claude Julien in Beirut. In addition to that novel about Bill Gray, he described the journey of Bobby Thompson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" baseball and created waste management worker Nick Shay. In another novel, Willie Mink supplies Dylar tablets to Babette for her fear of death and Hitler Studies Professor Jack Gladney is exposed to the titular "Airborne Toxic Event". For 10 points, name this American novelist of Mao II, Underworld, and White Noise.
In one work by this author, injuries sustained from a taxi in Athens prevent a writer from exchanging himself as a hostage for Swiss poet Jean- Claude Julien in Beirut.
Don {DeLillo}