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, and Newark, and graduated from See more

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 … See more

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 and were divorced in 1981. In 1981, … See more

• 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 1994 City of Glass … See more

"Over the past twenty-five years", wrote Michael Dirda in The New York Review of Books in 2008, "Paul Auster has established one of … See more

• 1989 Prix France Culture de Littérature Étrangère
• 1990 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters See more

Fiction
• Squeeze Play (1984) (written under pseudonym Paul Benjamin)
• The New York Trilogy (1987) ISBN 9780140169638 See more