Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle-class parents of Austrian descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey, … Se mere

After graduating from Columbia University with B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1970, he moved to Paris, where he earned a living translating French … Se mere

Auster was married to the writer Lydia Davis. They had one son together, Daniel Auster, who was arrested on April 16, 2022, and charged … Se mere

Fiction
• Squeeze Play (1984) (written under pseudonym Paul Benjamin)
• The New York Trilogy Se mere

"Over the past twenty-five years," wrote Michael Dirda in The New York Review of Books in 2008, "Paul Auster has established one of the most distinctive niches in … Se mere

• 1989 Prix France Culture de Littérature Étrangère
• 1990 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the Se mere

• In 1993, a movie adaptation of The Music of Chance was released. Auster features in a cameo role at the end of the film.
• In … Se mere