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Paul Auster was born on February 3, 1947, in Newark, New Jersey. He received a B.A. and a M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In addition to his career as a writer, Auster has been a census taker, tutor, merchant seaman, little-league baseball coach, and a telephone operator. He started his writing career as a translator. He soon gained popularity for the detective novels that make up his New York Trilogy. His other works include The Invention of Solitude; Leviathan; Moon Palace; Facing the Music; In the Country of Last Things; The Music of Chance; Mr. Vertigo; and The Brooklyn Follies. His latest novels are entitled, Invisible and Sunset Park. In addition to his novels, Auster has written screenplays and directed several films. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a French Prix Medicis for Foreign Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The New York Trilogy… (more)
The New York Trilogy 9,438 copies, 154 reviews
The Book of Illusions 4,111 copies, 73 reviews
The Brooklyn Follies 3,938 copies, 116 reviews
Moon Palace 3,285 copies, 58 reviews
Oracle Night 3,069 copies, 51 reviews
Leviathan 2,688 copies, 47 reviews
Timbuktu 2,447 copies, 64 reviews
The Music of Chance 2,126 copies, 39 reviews
Mr. Vertigo 2,111 copies, 40 reviews
Invisible 2,094 copies, 103 reviews
Travels in the Scriptorium 1,976 copies, 64 reviews
Man in the Dark 1,835 copies, 98 reviews
In the Country of Last Things 1,772 copies, 21 reviews
4 3 2 1 1,650 copies, 68 reviews
The Invention of Solitude 1,635 copies, 18 reviews
City of Glass 1,391 copies, 36 reviews
Sunset Park 1,377 copies, 65 reviews
True Tales of American Life 1,276 copies, 28 reviews
City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (Original Author) 1,186 copies, 26 reviews
Winter Journal 822 copies, 51 reviews
The Red Notebook: True Stories 758 copies, 14 reviews
Ghosts (New York Trilogy) 465 copies, 13 reviews
The Locked Room (New York Trilogy) 403 copies, 14 reviews
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story 330 copies, 14 reviews
Report from the Interior 302 copies, 22 reviews
Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011) 281 copies, 11 reviews
Smoke and Blue in the Face 179 copies, 3 reviews
Collected Poems 150 copies, 1 review
Lulu on the Bridge 139 copies, 1 review
The Story of My Typewriter 102 copies, 2 reviews
Squeeze Play 85 copies, 1 review
Disappearances 76 copies, 1 review
Bloodbath Nation 52 copies, 2 reviews
Why Write? 51 copies, 1 review
Smoke [1995 film] (Screenwriter) 36 copies, 1 review
Translations 31 copies
La solitude du labyrinthe 16 copies, 1 review
White Spaces 14 copies
Blue in the Face [1995 film] (Director/Screenwriter) 12 copies
Ensayos completos 12 copies, 1 review
Collected Novels Volume 3 8 copies, 1 review
Purgatory 6 copies
Wall Writing 4 copies
Unearth 3 copies
Baumgartner 3 copies, 1 review
Hending 1 copy
Worms 1 copy
Hunger (Introduction, some editions) 4,551 copies, 116 reviews
The Time in Between (some editions) 1,791 copies, 104 reviews
The Future Dictionary of America (Contributor) 619 copies, 3 reviews
Strange Stories for Strange Kids (Contributor) 212 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 87: Jubilee! The 25th Anniversary Issue (Contributor) 199 copies, 1 review
Granta 117: Horror (Contributor) 165 copies, 5 reviews
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (Translator, some editions) 153 copies, 1 review
Granta 46: Crime (Contributor) 150 copies
Granta 58: Ambition (Contributor) 142 copies
Granta 71: Shrinks (Contributor) 133 copies, 1 review
Granta 63: Beasts (Contributor) 132 copies
Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth (Contributor) 121 copies, 1 review
Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa (New York Review Books) (Introduction, some editions) 117 copies, 1 review
The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (Introduction) 109 copies, 2 reviews
Granta 125: After the War (Contributor) 79 copies, 3 reviews
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (Contributor) 71 copies, 2 reviews
Yours in Food, John Baldessari (Contributor) 39 copies
The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (Contributor) 33 copies
The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (Interview) 12 copies
Homenaje a Paul Auster (Contributor) 10 copies
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 03 (Contributor) 10 copies, 1 review
Het derde Testament : Joodse verhalen (Contributor, some editions) 6 copies
New York City reisverhalen 6 copies, 1 review
Arabs & Israelis : a dialogue (Translator, some editions) 3 copies
The Paris Review 96 1985 Summer (Contributor) 2 copies
Stooge Thirteen, Spring 1975 (Contributor) 1 copy

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