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Bio

Paul Auster (1947-2024) Novelist, memoirist, screenwriter. Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Brooklyn, New York.

Full Name

Paul Auster

Locations

KingsNew York

Author's Timeline


1947

Birth

Paul Benjamin Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, on February 3, 1947.

1968

Other Life Event

New York County: Mr. Auster was a student at Columbia University and participated there in the student uprising of 1968.

1969 & 1970

Other Life Event

New York County: Mr. Auster received a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Columbia University in 1969 and later a master’s degree in comparative literature in 1970.

1980

Residence

Kings County: Mr. Auster moved to the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in 1980.

1982

Literary Work

The Invention of Solitude
SUN
0915342375 / 978-0915342372
Memoir.

1985

Literary Work

City of Glass
Sun & Moon Press
0940650525 / 978-0940650527
Novel, volume 1 of 3 of The New York Trilogy.

1989

Literary Work

Moon Palace
Viking Adult
0670825093 / 978-0670825097
Novel.

1992

Literary Work

Leviathan
Viking Adult
0670846767 / 978-0670846764
Novel.

1997

Literary Work

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
Henry Holt and Company
0805054065 / 978-0805054064
Memoir.

2002

Literary Work

The Book of Illusions
Henry Holt and Company
0571212131 / 978-0571212132
Novel.

2002

Literary Work

The Story of My Typewriter
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
1891024329 / 978-1891024320
Nonfiction.

2012

Literary Work

Winter Journal
Henry Holt and Company
Memoir.

2017

Literary Work

4321
Henry Holt and Company
978-1627794466
Novel.

2017

Literary Work

A Life in Words
Seven Stories Press
1609807774 / 978-1609807771
Nonfiction.

2024

Death

Kings County: Paul Auster died at his home in Brooklyn, New York, on April 30, 2024.

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