Paul Auster
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born
February 03, 1947
gender
male
place of birth
Newark, New Jersey, The United States
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Literature & Fiction
about this author
After a year spent travelling in Europe, he enrolled at Columbia University and spent a year in Paris on an exchange. Returning to Columbia in 1968, he wrote articles and reviews while anti-Vietnam protests and riots raged around him. After publishing a crime novel pastiche, Squeeze Play, written under the pseudonym Paul Benjamin (who would later appear as a blocked writer in his screenplay for the film Smoke), Auster wrote his most celebrated work, The New York Trilogy in 1987.
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, and Timbuktu. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, NY."
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The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster avg rating 3.99 — 4,372 ratings — published 1985 45 editions |
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The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel by Paul Auster avg rating 3.61 — 2,880 ratings — published 2005 32 editions |
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The Book of Illusions: A Novel by Paul Auster avg rating 3.80 — 2,207 ratings — published 2002 29 editions |
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Leviathan by Paul Auster avg rating 3.91 — 1,623 ratings — published 1992 20 editions |
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Moon Palace by Paul Auster avg rating 3.97 — 1,486 ratings — published 1990 39 editions |
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Oracle Night by Paul Auster avg rating 3.68 — 1,531 ratings — published 2003 30 editions |
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City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1) by Paul Auster avg rating 3.87 — 1,356 ratings — published 1985 17 editions |
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Timbuktu: A Novel by Paul Auster avg rating 3.45 — 1,481 ratings — published 1998 22 editions |
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Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster avg rating 3.73 — 1,085 ratings — published 1994 19 editions |
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The Music of Chance by Paul Auster avg rating 3.82 — 971 ratings — published 1990 19 editions |
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Paul Auster on tour for the book "The Inner Life of Martin Frost: A Film"
Author appearance, November 12, 2009 12:00PM
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Author appearance, November 12, 2009 12:00PM
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"I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity."
— Paul Auster (Moon Palace)
— Paul Auster (Moon Palace)
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"We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
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