Paul Auster

Paul Auster was an American writer and film director. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.

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. His first wife was the writer Lydia Davis. They had one son together, Daniel Auster. In 1981, Auster married his second wife, writer Siri Hustvedt, the daughter of professor and scholar Lloyd Hustvedt. They lived in Brooklyn and had one daughter, Sophie Auster, a singer.

On March 11, 2023, Hustvedt revealed that Auster had been diagnosed with cancer in December 2022, and that he had been treated at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York since then. He died of complications of lung cancer at his home in Brooklyn, on April 30, 2024, at the age of 77. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sources

• "Paul Auster." Wikipedia, revision of 3 May 2024. < link > Accessed 3 May 2024.
• Tonkin, Boyd. "Paul Auster obituary." The Guardian, published 2 May 2024. < link > Accessed 3 May 2024.
• Williams, Alex. "Paul Auster, the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, Dies at 77." The New York Times, published 30 April 2024. < link > Accessed 3 May 2024.

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