Paul Auster, author who explored New York and life's riddles, dies at 77
Over more than 30 books, Auster often used New York as a backdrop for stories of characters struggling to make sense of life’s random chaos.
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Over more than 30 books, Auster often used New York as a backdrop for stories of characters struggling to make sense of life’s random chaos.
With his hooded eyes, soulful air and leading-man looks, Auster was often described as a ‘literary superstar’ in news accounts
In 1985, after seventeen New York publishers had rejected City of Glass, the lead novella in The New York Trilogy, it was published by Sun and Moon Press in San Francisco. The other two novellas, Ghosts and The Locked Room, came out the next year. Paul Auster was thirty-eight. Al...
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