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About the Author

Paul Auster was born on February 3, 1947, in Newark, New Jersey. He received a B.A. and a M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In addition to his career as a writer, Auster has been a census taker, tutor, merchant seaman, little-league baseball coach, and a telephone show more operator. He started his writing career as a translator. He soon gained popularity for the detective novels that make up his New York Trilogy. His other works include The Invention of Solitude; Leviathan; Moon Palace; Facing the Music; In the Country of Last Things; The Music of Chance; Mr. Vertigo; and The Brooklyn Follies. His latest novels are entitled, Invisible and Sunset Park. In addition to his novels, Auster has written screenplays and directed several films. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a French Prix Medicis for Foreign Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Also includes: Paul Benjamin (2)

Series

The New York Trilogy

Doubles jeux

Paul Auster Collected Novels

Works by Paul Auster

Popular Recent

The New York Trilogy (1985) 9,880 copies

The Book of Illusions (2002) 4,261 copies

The Brooklyn Follies (2005) 4,084 copies

Moon Palace (1989) 3,399 copies

Oracle Night (2003) 3,176 copies

Leviathan (1992) 2,806 copies

Timbuktu (1999) 2,531 copies

The Music of Chance (1990) 2,213 copies

Mr. Vertigo (1994) 2,198 copies

Invisible (2009) 2,191 copies

Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) 2,053 copies

Man in the Dark (2008) 1,915 copies

4 3 2 1 (2017) 1,871 copies

In the Country of Last Things (1987) 1,851 copies

The Invention of Solitude (1982) 1,729 copies

City of Glass (1985) 1,471 copies

Sunset Park (2010) 1,453 copies

I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project (2001) — Editor — 1,327 copies

City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (1994) — Original Author — 1,236 copies

Winter Journal (2012) 893 copies

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure (1997) 859 copies

The Red Notebook: True Stories (1993) 813 copies

Ghosts (1986) 500 copies

The Locked Room (1987) 434 copies

The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, The Red Notebook (1992) 343 copies

Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990) 342 copies

Report from the Interior (2013) 336 copies

Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011 (2013) 304 copies

Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations with Artists (2003) 268 copies

Baumgartner (2023) 243 copies

The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1982) — Editor — 198 copies

Smoke and Blue in the Face (1995) 189 copies

Collected Poems (2004) 163 copies

Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (2021) 147 copies

Lulu on the Bridge (1998) 146 copies

The Inner Life of Martin Frost: A Film (2007) 129 copies

The Story of My Typewriter (2002) 109 copies

Bloodbath Nation (2023) 105 copies

Squeeze Play (1997) 89 copies

Disappearances (1988) 83 copies

Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays, 1970-79 (1991) 65 copies

Collected Prose: Expanded Edition (2010) 55 copies

Paul Auster's New York (1997) 50 copies

Why Write? (1996) 50 copies

Day/Night: Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark (2009) 49 copies

Smoke [1995 film] (1995) — Screenwriter — 39 copies

Merry Murder (1994) 39 copies

Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge (2003) 38 copies

Translations (1997) 32 copies

Smoke, suivi de "Brooklin Boogie" (1999) 29 copies

A Life in Words: In Conversation with I. B. Siegumfeldt (2016) 27 copies

Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967-2017 (2019) 26 copies

Collected Novels Volume 1 (2004) 26 copies

Le Diable par la queue, suivi de "Pourquoi écrire ?" (1999) 24 copies

Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) (1998) 22 copies

Collected Novels Volume 2 (2005) 21 copies

Constat d'accident et autres textes (2003) 20 copies

Doubles-jeux: Gotham Handbook (Livre VIII) (1998) 18 copies

White Spaces (1980) 17 copies

Blue in the Face [1995 film] (2003) — Director/Screenwriter — 13 copies

Het spinsel van de eenzaamheid ; Van de hand in de tand (2009) 12 copies

Ensayos completos (1984) 12 copies

Collected Novels Volume 3 (2008) 9 copies

Szenen aus "Smoke" (1996) 9 copies

Facing the Music (1980) 9 copies

A Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems (1777) 7 copies

Oeuvres romanesques et Autres textes, tome 1 (1999) 7 copies

Purgatory (2005) 7 copies

Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979-2012 (2020) 6 copies

Juego del otro, El (2010) 6 copies

Le diable par la queue: suivi de Laurel et Hardy vont au paradis: Black-out: & Cache-cache: Action baseball: Fausse… (1999) 6 copies

Le trame della scrittura (2005) 5 copies

La Pipe d'Oppen (Lettres anglo-américaines) (2016) 5 copies

Oeuvres romanesques et Autres textes, tome 2 (1999) 5 copies

Lektürehilfen Englisch. Moon Palace: Ausführliche Inhaltsangabe mit Interpretation. Inklusive Abitur-Fragen… (2001) 5 copies

Poesia Y Prosa 4 copies

Unearth (1974) 4 copies

Conversations with Paul Auster (2013) 4 copies

Wall Writing (1976) 4 copies

Collected Screenplays (2010) 4 copies

Thesaurus paul auster intégrale (1999) 4 copies

It Don't Mean a Thing (2019) 3 copies

[unidentified works] 3 copies

Pays de sang: Une histoire de la violence par arme à feu aux États-Unis (2023) 3 copies

Fragments from Cold (1977) 3 copies

幽霊たち (新潮文庫) (1995) 3 copies

El cuaderno rojo: Historias verdaderas (2012) 2 copies

Laurel et Hardy vont au paradis, suide "Black-Out" et de "Cache-Cache" (2000) 2 copies

幻影の書 (2008) 2 copies

ムーン・パレス (新潮文庫) (1994) 2 copies

偶然の音楽 (1998) 2 copies

Coffret inedit actes sud vingt ans 1978-1998 8vols (1998) 2 copies

ティンブクトゥ (2006) 1 copy

スモーク&ブルー・イン・ザ・フェイス (新潮文庫) (1995) 1 copy

鍵のかかった部屋 (新しいアメリカの小説) (1989) 1 copy

ムーン・パレス (1994) 1 copy

シティ・オブ・グラス (洋販ラダーシリーズ LEVEL 5+) (2007) 1 copy

リヴァイアサン (1999) 1 copy

幽霊たち (洋販ラダーシリーズ LEVEL 4+) (2007) 1 copy

Invisible 2009 1 copy

Exclusive Interview: James Atlas with Paul Auster 1 copy

Itt és most 1 copy

ポール・オースターが朗読するナショナル・ストーリー・プロジェクト (2005) 1 copy

ליל האוב 1 copy

The Uninhabited [Living Hand 7, July 1976] (1976) 1 copy

Viaje por el scriptorium 1 copy

AQUI Y AHORA. CARTAS 1 copy

PUTOVANJA U SKRIPTORIJUM 1 copy

The New York Trilogy Manuscript (2018) 1 copy

. Newark - N Yersey : 3/2/1947 1 copy

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Vinte dias com Julian & Coelhinho, por Papai) (2002) 1 copy

La condición humana 1 copy

Lulu on the Bridge: Screenplay (faber and faber) 1 copy

Worms 1 copy

Witness Volume 12 Number 1, 1998 (1998) 1 copy

Uma Receita Vencedora em Paris (2021) 1 copy

Paul Auster, coffret de 3 volumes (French Edition) (2002) 1 copy

Ragazzo in fiamme. Vita e opere di Stephen Crane 1 copy

Viaggi nello scriptorium. Ediz. araba 1 copy

Sansit Bark : riwayah (2018) 1 copy

Zimski dnevnik (2013) 1 copy

The Inner Life of Martin Frost [2007 film] — Director — 1 copy

City of Glass (Oberon Modern Plays) 1 copy

Glerborgin 1 copy

VIDA INTERIOR DE MARTIN FROST, LA (B) 1 copy

Guiones 1 copy

Auster en palabras de Auster 1 copy

Work Explorer

Associated Works

Hunger (1890) — Introduction, some editions — 4,535 copies

The Time in Between (2009) — some editions — 1,909 copies

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Contributor — 630 copies

Strange Stories for Strange Kids (2001) — Contributor — 221 copies

Granta 87: Jubilee! The 25th Anniversary Issue (2004) — Contributor — 201 copies

Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word (2009) — Contributor — 182 copies

Granta 117: Horror (2011) — Contributor — 175 copies

Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1972) — Translator, some editions — 167 copies

Novels II of Samuel Beckett: Volume II of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary… (2006) — Editor — 165 copies

This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contributor — 162 copies

Granta 46: Crime (1994) — Contributor — 152 copies

Granta 58: Ambition (1997) — Contributor — 144 copies

Granta 71: Shrinks (2000) — Contributor — 136 copies

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove… (2006) — Editor — 135 copies

Granta 63: Beasts (1998) — Contributor — 132 copies

Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth (1993) — Contributor — 125 copies

Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contributor — 124 copies

Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa (2003) — Introduction, some editions — 122 copies

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (2012) — Introduction — 118 copies

The Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV of The Grove Centenary Editions (2006) — Editor — 83 copies

Granta 125: After the War (2013) — Contributor — 82 copies

The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Contributor — 75 copies

After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology (1995) — Contributor — 66 copies

The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On (1997) — Contributor — 61 copies

Yours in Food, John Baldessari (2004) — Contributor — 40 copies

The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993) — Contributor — 34 copies

Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Contributor — 32 copies

La solitude du labyrinthe (1997) — some editions — 17 copies

The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (2003) — Interview — 14 copies

Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 03 (2013) — Contributor — 11 copies

Homenaje a Paul Auster (2007) — Contributor — 10 copies

Het derde Testament : Joodse verhalen (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 7 copies

New York City reisverhalen 6 copies

Den kriminelle novelle (1999) — Author, some editions — 5 copies

Poetry Magazine Vol. 201 No. 5, February 2013 (2012) — Contributor — 4 copies

Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul (2013) — Contributor — 4 copies

Rachel Cobb: Mistral: The Legendary Wind of Provence (2018) 3 copies

Arabs and Israelis: A Dialogue (1975) — Translator, some editions — 3 copies

L'oeuvre de Paul Auster (1995) 2 copies

Granta. 6 : Raha : uuden kirjallisuuden areena. (2016) 2 copies

The Paris Review 96 1985 Summer (1985) — Contributor — 2 copies

Paideuma Volume 10 Number 1 Special Issue: George Oppen (1981) — Author — 1 copy

MONKEY vol. 31 特集：読書 — Contributor — 1 copy

MONKEY vol.10 映画を夢みて — Contributor — 1 copy

MONKEY Vol.1 ◆ 青春のポール・オースター (2013) — Contributor — 1 copy

Stooge Thirteen, Spring 1975 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Auster, Paul Benjamin
Other names: Benjamin, Paul
Auster, Paul
Birthdate: 1947-02-03
Date of death: 2024-04-30
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Country (for map): USA
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Place of death: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Cause of death: lung cancer
Places of residence: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Paris, France
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Education: Columbia University (1970)
Occupations: novelist
poet
scriptwriter
translator
Relationships: Hustvedt, Siri (wife)
Davis, Lydia (wife|divorced)
Organizations: PEN American Center (Vice-President)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2006)
Awards and honors: Morton Dauwen Zabel Award (1990)
Premio Príncipe de Asturias (Letters ∙ 2006)
Honorary Doctorate (University of Leige ∙ 2007)
John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence (1996)
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2007)
Short biography: Paul Auster was the husband of author Siri Hustvedt.

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Discussions

Author Paul Austor in Book talk (May 2)

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June 2013: Paul Auster in Monthly Author Reads (July 2019)

Group Read, September 2016: The Music of Chance in 1001 Books to read before you die (September 2016)

Reviews

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster

An easy read but with a plot that strained to maintain itself. The long descriptions of the film scenes seemed overdrawn and to act as unnecessary padding to the whole. The characters too lacked a dimension or two, and failed conviction as fully functioning American adults.
Anyway, knocked it off in twenty four hours, so I can't say I was bogged down by the reading of it all. Moving on.

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Mr. Vertigo by Werner Schmitz

Beautiful, Heartbreaking book about wonder, about transience of life, and an era in American history narrated by Walt "The Wonder Boy". Highly recommended.

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ggulick | 39 other reviews | May 29, 2024 |