Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, son of Samuel Auster, a landlord who owned buildings with his brothers in Jersey City, and Queenie, née Bogat. His middle-class parents were Jewish, of Austrian descent; … Se mere

After graduating from Columbia University with B.A. and M.A. degrees (English, Comparative Literature) in 1970, he moved to Paris where, among other jobs, he tried to earn a … Se mere

Auster's first marriage was to the writer Lydia Davis in 1974. They had one child together, their son Daniel Auster. By 1979 they were separated … 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 … 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. Se mere