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Paul Auster

Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
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American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)

Born 3 February 1947

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  • Cover of: Hunger
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  • Cover of: The New York trilogy
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  • Cover of: Man in the Dark
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  • Cover of: The art of hunger: essays, prefaces, interviews ; and, The red notebook
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  • Cover of: Mr. Vertigo
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  • Cover of: The Brooklyn follies
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  • Cover of: Here and Now
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  • Cover of: The invention of solitude
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  • Cover of: Leviathan
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  • Cover of: The book of illusions: a novel
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  • Cover of: Hand to mouth: a chronicle of early failure

    First published in 1997 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: In the country of last things
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  • Cover of: The music of chance
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  • Cover of: La trilogía de Nueva York

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  • Cover of: Ciutat de vidre

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  • Cover of: New York Trilogy

    First published in 1988 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: La trilogía de Nueva York

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American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)

Born 3 February 1947

Subjects

Fiction, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American Authors, New york (n.y.), fiction, Biography, Auster, paul, 1947-, Authorship, Authors, biography, Authors, fiction, Missing persons, fiction, City and town life, Fathers and sons, Fiction, family life, general, Large type books, Motion picture industry, fiction, Widowers, fiction, Biographies, Fiction, general, American literature, Essays (single author), Interviews, Man-woman relationships, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Poetry (poetic works by one author)

Places

New York, New York (State), Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.), United States, Brooklyn, Paris, Sunset Park (New York, N.Y.), France, Park Slope (New York, N.Y.), Baltimore (Md.), Berkeley, Biography, Deutsch, E tats-Unis, Juden, Kristiania, Manhattan, Minnesota, New York (Etats-Unis ; état), Norway, Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone), Oregon, Oslo (Norway), Paris (France)

People

Paul Auster (1947-), Paul Auster, Georges Perec (1936-1982), I. B. Siegumfeldt, J. M. Coetzee (1940-), Sarah Horowitz (1977-), Sidney Orr

Time

20th century, 20e siècle, 1945-, 1945- ..., 1993-2001, 19th century, 20e sie cle, Siglo XX

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Alternative names

  • Auster P
  • P. Auster
  • P. AUSTER
  • paul auster
  • paul-auster
  • AUSTER P
  • PAUL AUSTER
  • Auster Paul
  • P Auster

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May 19, 2025 Edited by Tauriel063 merge authors
December 23, 2021 Edited by dcapillae fix date; remove wrong alternative names
December 23, 2021 Edited by dcapillae merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import