Paul Auster

Paul Auster was born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish parents of Austrian descent, and grew up in South Orange and Newark. At fourteen, at a summer camp, he saw a boy beside him killed by lightning, an event he called the seminal experience of his life, which made him think about chance. He studied at Columbia University and began his career as a poet and translator. His memoir The Invention of Solitude (1982), written after his father's death, was followed by City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, published together as The New York Trilogy (1987); these playful detective stories, in which writers and investigators lose track of their own identities, made him famous. His other novels include Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, The Book of Illusions, The Brooklyn Follies and 4 3 2 1 (2017), which follows four possible lives of the same boy. He also wrote for film. His books have been translated into more than forty languages. He lived in Brooklyn and died there in 2024.

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Faith: Born to Jewish parents; his personal beliefs are not well documented. Source: Wikipedia