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  • Date of Birth: 03 February, 1947
  • Place of Birth: Newark, NJ , United States
  • Biography: Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction, such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989) and The Brooklyn Follies (2005).

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Orhan Pamuk is a man in love. So is Kemal, the narrator of Pamuk's shimmering, brimming new novel The Museum of Innocence (Knopf, $28.95). Kemal falls in love with Fusun, a poor and distant relation 12 years his junior. ... Full Article

Paul Auster's first novel, City of Glass (1985), was rejected by 17 publishers. The story of a crime novelist turned private investigator, it explores identity, reality and obsession, and later appeared as part of his most famous book, The New... ... Full Article

A funny thing happened during Granta 's B.E.A. panel on the state of American writing on Friday, when a woman from the audience asked Paul Auster whether it was his idea to turn Timbuktu , a novella he published in... ... Full Article

The cabaret took place in the same basement auditorium of the French Institute that had earlier played host to two highly anticipated panels. One was a discussion between Paul Auster and Enrique Vila-Matas , an enormously charming Spanish writer already... ... Full Article

Moon Palace begins: 'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon.' Moon men and moon madness are everywhere in the novel, symbolising (as Paul Auster said in an interview) 'the longing for what is not, the unattainable,... ... Full Article

AUTHORS CHAT
latimes.com2008-09-17
The literary and cultural series Writers Bloc hosts a conversation between authors Paul Auster ("The Brooklyn Follies," "Leviathan," "New York Trilogy") and Michael Tolkin ("The Player," "The Return of the Player"). ... Full Article

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