Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1947 to middle class parents. After attending Columbia University he lived in France for four years. Since returning to America in 1974, he has published poems, essays, novels and translations.
Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction
Novels
In the Country of Last Things (1987)
Moon Palace (1989)
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1992)
Leviathan (1992)
Mr. Vertigo (1994)
Dream Days in Hotel (1998)
Timbuktu (1999)
Sophie Calle: Double Game (1999)
The Book of Illusions (2002)
Oracle Night (2003)
The Brooklyn Follies (2005)
Travels in the Scriptorium (2006)
Man in the Dark (2008)
Invisible (2009)
Sunset Park (2010)
4 3 2 1 (2017)
Moon Palace (1989)
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1992)
Leviathan (1992)
Mr. Vertigo (1994)
Dream Days in Hotel (1998)
Timbuktu (1999)
Sophie Calle: Double Game (1999)
The Book of Illusions (2002)
Oracle Night (2003)
The Brooklyn Follies (2005)
Travels in the Scriptorium (2006)
Man in the Dark (2008)
Invisible (2009)
Sunset Park (2010)
4 3 2 1 (2017)
Omnibus
Smoke / Blue in the Face (1995)
Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge (2003)
Collected Novels Volume 1 (2004)
Collected Novels Volume 2 (2005)
Collected Novels Volume 3 (2008)
Day / Night (2013)
Collected Novels Volume 4 (2015)
Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge (2003)
Collected Novels Volume 1 (2004)
Collected Novels Volume 2 (2005)
Collected Novels Volume 3 (2008)
Day / Night (2013)
Collected Novels Volume 4 (2015)
Collections
Wall Writing (poems) (1976)
Facing the Music (poems) (1980)
Disappearances (poems) (1988)
Ground Work (1990)
Selected Poems (poems) (1998)
Collected Poems (poems) (2004)
Facing the Music (poems) (1980)
Disappearances (poems) (1988)
Ground Work (1990)
Selected Poems (poems) (1998)
Collected Poems (poems) (2004)
Plays
The Music of Chance (1990)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Smoke (1995)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2006)
Collected Screenplays (2010)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Smoke (1995)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2006)
Collected Screenplays (2010)
Anthologies edited
The Random House Book of Twentieth Century Poetry (1982)
I Thought My Father Was God (2001)
True Tales of American Life (2001)
I Thought My Father Was God (2001)
True Tales of American Life (2001)
Non fiction
White Spaces (1980)
The Art of Hunger (1983)
The Notebooks of Jeseph Joubert (1983)
The Invention of Solitude (1985)
The Red Notebook (1992)
Why Write? (1996)
Translations (1997)
Paul Auster's New York (1997)
Hand to Mouth (1997)
The Story of My Typewriter (2001)
Collected Prose (2003)
Winter Journal (2012)
Here and Now (2012) (with J M Coetzee)
Report from the Interior (2013)
A Life in Words (2017) (with I B Siegumfeldt)
Talking to Strangers (2019)
Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979-2012 (2020)
Burning Boy (2021)
The Art of Hunger (1983)
The Notebooks of Jeseph Joubert (1983)
The Invention of Solitude (1985)
The Red Notebook (1992)
Why Write? (1996)
Translations (1997)
Paul Auster's New York (1997)
Hand to Mouth (1997)
The Story of My Typewriter (2001)
Collected Prose (2003)
Winter Journal (2012)
Here and Now (2012) (with J M Coetzee)
Report from the Interior (2013)
A Life in Words (2017) (with I B Siegumfeldt)
Talking to Strangers (2019)
Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979-2012 (2020)
Burning Boy (2021)
Awards
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Paul Auster recommends

The Living End (1979)
Stanley Elkin
"Stanley Elkin's imagination should be declared a national landmark. When the moment comes to write the history of AMerican English in the late twentieth century, his novels will be a fundamental source."

A Still Small Voice (2000)
John Reed
"A spellbinding novel of love and war, from a young writer of great promise."

The Seducer (2003)
(Jonas Wergeland, book 1)
Jan Kjærstad
"An enormously accomplished and compelling novel."

My Heart (2021)
Semezdin Mehmedinović
"Semezdin Memedinovic charts the collapse of a world with heartbreaking clarity and precision . . . conveys the same clear-eyed passion for the truth that one finds in the young Hemingway, the Hemingway of our time."
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