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Paul Auster

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February 03, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, The United States

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After a year spent traveling 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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Average rating: 3.76 · 66,729 ratings · 6,230 reviews · 120 distinct works
The New York Trilogy
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 11,527 ratings — published 1985 — 75 editions
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The Brooklyn Follies
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 6,115 ratings — published 2005 — 51 editions
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The Book of Illusions
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 5,397 ratings — published 2002 — 44 editions
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Moon Palace
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 3,705 ratings — published 1989 — 55 editions
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Leviathan
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 3,617 ratings27 editions
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City of Glass
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 3,128 ratings19 editions
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Oracle Night
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 3,770 ratings — published 2003 — 57 editions
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Invisible
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 3,334 ratings — published 2009 — 38 editions
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Timbuktu
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 3,057 ratings — published 1999 — 36 editions
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Mr. Vertigo
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 2,631 ratings26 editions
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November 2010, Paul Auster
"The genre-bending innovator behind The New York Trilogy examines the 2008 economic collapse in Sunset Park—it's tough to be young and broke in America." ...More

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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

“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
Paul Auster

“It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”
Paul Auster

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