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Paul Auster


Born
in Newark, New Jersey, The United States
February 03, 1947

Died
April 30, 2024

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Genre
Fiction, Memoir

Influences
Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, Cervantes, F. Scott Fitzge ...more


Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Le ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 471,241 ratings · 38,751 reviews · 282 distinct works • Similar authors
The New York Trilogy (New Y...
3.87 avg rating — 81,800 ratings — published 1987 — 241 editions
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4 3 2 1
3.97 avg rating — 34,532 ratings — published 2017 — 98 editions
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The Brooklyn Follies
3.87 avg rating — 30,728 ratings — published 2005 — 132 editions
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Moon Palace
3.98 avg rating — 27,579 ratings — published 1989 — 134 editions
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The Book of Illusions
3.90 avg rating — 25,731 ratings — published 2002 — 29 editions
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Invisible
3.74 avg rating — 22,399 ratings — published 2009 — 102 editions
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City of Glass (The New York...
3.76 avg rating — 22,232 ratings — published 1985 — 67 editions
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Leviathan
3.97 avg rating — 20,212 ratings — published 1992 — 118 editions
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Oracle Night
3.81 avg rating — 17,078 ratings — published 2003 — 113 editions
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The Invention of Solitude
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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”
― Paul Auster, Moon Palace
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