Paul Auster

{{Short description|American writer and film director (1947–2024)}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Paul Auster

| image = Paul Auster BBF 2010 Shankbone.jpg

| caption = Auster in 2010

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| pseudonym = Paul Benjamin

| birth_name = Paul Benjamin Auster

| birth_date = {{birth date|1947|2|3}}

| birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|4|30|1947|2|3}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| occupation = {{flatlist|

Novelist
poet
filmmaker
translator

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| spouse = {{Plainlist|

{{marriage|Lydia Davis|1974|1977|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Siri Hustvedt|1981}}

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| children = 2, including Sophie Auster

| alma_mater = Columbia University (BA, MA)

| period = 1974–2024

| genre = Poetry, literary fiction

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| signature = Autograph Auster (cropped).jpg

| website = {{URL|paul-auster.com}}

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Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024) was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than 40 languages.{{cite web|url=http://www.theater-rigiblick.ch/spielplan/projekt/paul-auster-liest-in-englischer-sprache|title=Theater Rigiblick – Spielplan – Kalenderansicht – Paul Auster liest|work=Theater Rigiblick|access-date=April 23, 2015|archive-date=July 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715123109/https://www.theater-rigiblick.ch/spielplan/projekt/paul-auster-liest-in-englischer-sprache|url-status=live}}

Early life

Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey,Freeman, John. [http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207159751661&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull "At home with Siri and Paul"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309124933/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207159751661&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |date=March 9, 2011 }}, The Jerusalem Post, April 3, 2008. Retrieved September 19, 2008. "Like so many people in New York, both of them are spiritual refugees of a sort. Auster hails from Newark, New Jersey, and Hustvedt from Minnesota, where she was raised the daughter of a professor, among a clan of very tall siblings." son of Samuel Auster, a landlord who owned buildings with his brothers in Jersey City,{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Alex |date=2024-05-01 |title=Paul Auster, the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, Dies at 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html |access-date=2024-06-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} and Queenie, née Bogat. His middle-class parents were Jewish, of Austrian descent; the marriage was an unhappy one, and they divorced during Auster's senior year of high school, he moving with his mother and sister to an apartment at Weequahic, Newark.{{Cite web |title=Paul Auster - Part 1: The Apprentice Years (1947-1974) |url=https://www.uv.es/~fores/AcosoTextual/austerbio.html |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=www.uv.es}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GboRwPZNXzkC&pg=PA214 |title=Conversations with Paul Auster – Google Books |date=March 2013 |access-date=20 April 2013 |isbn=978-1-61703-736-8 |last1=Auster |first1=Paul |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |archive-date=May 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501115135/https://books.google.com/books?id=GboRwPZNXzkC&pg=PA214#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last1=Taub|first1=Michael|last2=Shatzky|first2=Joel|title=Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook| url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat|url-access=registration| year=1997| publisher=Greenwood|pages=[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/13 13]–20|isbn=978-0-313-29462-4}} An uncle was the translator Allen Mandelbaum.{{Cite web |date=2024-06-12 |title=Paul Auster obituary: flamboyant writer who mixed autobiography and fiction |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/paul-auster-obituary-death-mf22r5z67 |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}} He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey,Begley, Adam. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-92mag.html "Case of the Brooklyn Symbolist"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524103110/http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-92mag.html |date=May 24, 2013 }}, The New York Times, August 30, 1992. Retrieved September 19, 2008. "The grandson of first-generation Jewish immigrants, he was born in Newark in 1947, grew up in South Orange and attended high school in Maplewood, 20 miles southwest of New York." and Newark,Auster, Paul. Winter Journal (New York, NY: Henry Holt, 2012), p. 61. and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood.Freeman, Hadley. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/26/fiction.fashion "American dreams: He may be known as one of New York's coolest chroniclers, but Paul Auster grew up in suburban New Jersey and worked on an oil tanker before achieving literary success. Hadley Freeman meets a modernist with some very traditional views"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310154544/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/26/fiction.fashion |date=March 10, 2017 }}, The Guardian, October 26, 2002. Retrieved September 19, 2008. "Education: Columbia High School, New Jersey; 1965–69 Columbia College, New York; '69–70 Columbia University, New York (quit after one year)"

During the summers of 1958 and 1959, Auster attended, respectively, Camp LakeView (East Brunswick, NJ) and Camp Pontiac (Copake, NY), where his outstanding athletic talents were recognized, especially as a baseball infielder. While attending summer camp, the 14-year-old Auster witnessed what he called the "seminal experience" of his life:{{Cite web|url=http://theconversation.com/an-american-writer-with-a-european-sensibility-paul-auster-viewed-his-society-from-an-oblique-angle-229118|title=An American writer with a European sensibility, Paul Auster viewed his society from an oblique angle|first=Paul|last=Giles|date=May 3, 2024|website=The Conversation}} a boy being struck by lightning and dying instantly.{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/05/01/paul-auster-the-new-york-trilogy-music-of-chance-fiction/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501180811/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/05/01/paul-auster-the-new-york-trilogy-music-of-chance-fiction/ | archive-date=May 1, 2024 | title=Paul Auster, screenwriter and novelist best known for the New York Trilogy – obituary | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=May 2024 | last1=Obituaries | first1=Telegraph }} The boy was standing a few inches away from him at the time. This event changed his life, thinking about it every day.{{Cite news |last=Creamer |first=Ella |date=2024-05-01 |title=Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/01/paul-auster-dies-aged-77-death-american-author-new-york-trilogy |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

Career

After graduating from Columbia University with B.A. and M.A. degrees (English, Comparative Literature) in 1970,{{Cite web|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/mar_apr06/cover.html|title=Columbia College Today|website=www.college.columbia.edu}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wusf.org/2024-05-01/bestselling-novelist-paul-auster-author-of-the-new-york-trilogy-dies-at-77|title=Bestselling novelist Paul Auster, author of 'The New York Trilogy,' dies at 77 | WUSF|date=May 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501101020/https://www.wusf.org/2024-05-01/bestselling-novelist-paul-auster-author-of-the-new-york-trilogy-dies-at-77 |archive-date=May 1, 2024 }} he moved to Paris where, among other jobs, he tried to earn a living translating French literature. After returning to the United States in 1974, he continued to work on his poems, essays, and translations of French writers, such as Stéphane Mallarmé{{Cite journal |last=Hurezanu |first=Daniela |date=2006 |title=A Tomb for Anatole by Stéphane Mallarmé: Translated by Paul Auster. New York: New Directions, ISBN 0-811215-938 |journal=Translation Review |language=en |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=67–70 |doi=10.1080/07374836.2006.10523938 |issn=0737-4836}} and Joseph Joubert.{{Cite book |last=Joubert |first=Joseph |title=The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert |year=2005 |edition=1 |series=NYRB Classics |translator-last=Auster |translator-first=Paul}}{{cite web | url=https://bigthink.com/people/paulauster/ | title=Big Think: Paul Auster Interview}} His work as a translator led to the publication in 1982 of The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, which he edited.{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/book/random-house-book-twentieth-century-french-poetry|title=The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry|first=Academy of American|last=Poets|website=Poets.org}}

File:Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie and Shimon Peres.jpg with Salman Rushdie and Caro Llewellyn in 2008]]

Following the appearance in 1982 of his acclaimed debut work, a memoir titled The Invention of Solitude, Auster gained renown for a series of three loosely connected novellas published collectively as The New York Trilogy (1987),{{Cite web|url=https://tertulia.com/editorial-list/https://tertulia.com/article/guide-to-reading-books-of-paul-auster|title=A Guide to Reading the Work of Paul Auster (1947-2024)|website=Tertulia}} and is often cited as his most widely known work to the general reading public.

Although The New York Trilogy gives a nod to the detective genre, they are not conventional detective stories organized around solving mysteries. Rather, Auster uses the detective form to address questions of identity, space, language, and literature, creating his own distinctively postmodern form in the process. Auster disagrees with this analysis, because he believes that "the Trilogy grows directly out of The Invention of Solitude".Mallia, Joseph. "[http://bombsite.com/issues/23/articles/1062 "Paul Auster"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007150730/http://bombsite.com/issues/23/articles/1062 |date=October 7, 2011}}, "BOMB Magazine", Spring, 1988.

Similar to the themes explored in The New York Trilogy, the search for identity and personal meaning continued to permeate the three novels Auster published in quick succession in the late 1980s. Whether writing about the relationships between people caught in the flux of an uncertain future and uncertain identity (In the Country of Last Things [1987] and Moon Palace [1989]), or the role of coincidence and random events in our lives (The Music of Chance [1990]), Auster was steadily increasing his readership and popularity.

During the 1990s Auster published three more novels, but he increasingly turned his attention to script writing and filmmaking by way of his screenplay and directorial collaborations with Wayne Wang on Smoke (which won Auster the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay) and Blue in the Face. He also directed the movie Lulu on the Bridge (1998).{{cite news|last=Garrett |first=Stephan |title=Seven Questions for Lulu on the Bridge Filmmaker Paul Auster |work=Indiewire |date=May 21, 1998 |url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/seven_questions_for_lulu_on_the_bridge_filmmaker_paul_auster |accessdate=February 23, 2012}}{{NoteTag|Prior to meeting Wayne Wong who first invited Auster to collaborate on all aspects of the filmmaking process, Auster did have some limited involvement in the film adaptation of his novel The Music of Chance via consultation and a small cameo appearance (uncredited) toward the end of the film}}

After a steadfast commitment to filmmaking during the late 1990s, Auster decided to turn his attention once again to writing novels, memoirs, and essays during the remaining two decades of his life. Between 2002 and 2024, Auster published nine novels, two memoirs, an 800-page biography of Stephen Crane (Burning Boy), and a sustained jeremiad (Auster calls it a "political pamphlet") on the long, unending history of gun violence in America (Bloodbath Nation). Eight of the final ten novels Auster published during his lifetime (from 1999 to 2023) received nominations for the International Dublin Award, and Auster's 2017 novel 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.{{cite web|title=Man Booker Prize 2017: shortlist makes room for debuts alongside big names|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/13/man-booker-prize-2017-shortlist-debuts-big-names-saunders-mozley-fridlund-smith-auster|website=The Guardian|access-date=13 September 2017|date=13 September 2017}}

Auster was on the PEN American Center board of trustees from 2004 to 2009{{Cite web|title = Board of Trustees: 2004–2005 {{!}} PEN American Center|url = http://www.pen.org/board-trustees-2004-2005|website = www.pen.org|date = August 28, 2012|access-date = 15 January 2016|archive-date = January 15, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200115184618/https://pen.org/board-trustees-2004-2005/|url-status = live}}{{Cite web|title = Board of Trustees: 2008–2009 {{!}} PEN American Center|url = http://www.pen.org/board-trustees-2008-2009|website = www.pen.org|date = August 28, 2012|access-date = 15 January 2016|archive-date = March 4, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110526/http://www.pen.org/board-trustees-2008-2009|url-status = live}} and its vice president from 2005 through 2007.{{Cite web|title = Board of Trustees: 2005–2006 {{!}} PEN American Center|url = http://www.pen.org/board-trustees-2005-2006|website = www.pen.org|date = August 28, 2012|access-date = 15 January 2016|archive-date = January 11, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200111020631/https://pen.org/board-trustees-2005-2006/|url-status = live}}{{Cite web|title = Board of Trustees: 2006–2007 {{!}} PEN American Center|url = http://www.pen.org/board-trustees-2006-2007|website = www.pen.org|date = August 28, 2012|access-date = 15 January 2016|archive-date = July 8, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150708034523/http://www.pen.org/board-trustees-2006-2007|url-status = live}}

In 2012, Auster said in an interview that he would not visit Turkey, in protest at its treatment of journalists. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan replied: "As if we need you! Who cares if you come, or not?"{{cite web |agency=Associated Press in Ankara |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/01/turkish-pm-paul-auster-human-rights |title=Turkish PM criticizes US writer Paul Auster over human rights comments, Guardian, 01.02.2012 |work=The Guardian |date=March 27, 2013 |access-date=20 April 2013 |archive-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715064506/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/01/turkish-pm-paul-auster-human-rights |url-status=live }} Auster responded: "According to the latest numbers gathered by International PEN, there are nearly one hundred writers imprisoned in Turkey, not to speak of independent publishers such as Ragıp Zarakolu, whose case is being closely watched by PEN Centers around the world."{{cite web |last=Itzkoff |first=Dave |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/paul-auster-responds-after-turkish-prime-minister-calls-him-an-ignorant-man/ |title=Paul Auster Responds After Turkish Prime Minister Calls Him 'an Ignorant Man', The New York Times, 01.02.2012 |date=February 2012 |location=Turkey |publisher=Artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com |access-date=20 April 2013 |archive-date=April 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407012431/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/paul-auster-responds-after-turkish-prime-minister-calls-him-an-ignorant-man/ |url-status=live }}

Auster was willing to give Iranian translators permission to write Persian versions of his works in exchange for a small fee; Iran does not recognize international copyright laws.{{cite news|author=Dehghan, Saeed Kamali|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/23/why-iran-has-16-different-translations-of-one-khaled-hosseini-novel|title=Why Iran has 16 different translations of one Khaled Hosseini novel|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2017-06-23|access-date=2018-12-25|archive-date=October 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011033230/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/23/why-iran-has-16-different-translations-of-one-khaled-hosseini-novel|url-status=live}}

One of Auster's later books, A Life in Words, was published in October 2017 by Seven Stories Press. It brought together two years of conversations with the Danish scholar I.B. Siegumfeldt about each of Auster's fiction and non-fiction works. It has been a primary source for understanding Auster's approach to his works.{{cite web |url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539868/a-life-in-words-by-paul-auster-in-conversation-with-i-b-siegumfeldt/9781609807771/ |title=A Life in Words by Paul Auster in Conversation with I B Siegumfeldt |publisher=Penguin Random House |access-date=5 June 2017 |archive-date=November 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112182020/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539868/a-life-in-words-by-paul-auster-in-conversation-with-i-b-siegumfeldt/9781609807771/ |url-status=live }}

Reception

"Over the past twenty-five years", wrote Michael Dirda in The New York Review of Books in 2008, "Paul Auster has established one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature".{{Cite magazine |title=Spellbound |last=Dirda |first=Michael |magazine=The New York Review of Books |date=4 December 2008 |access-date=12 November 2019 |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/12/04/spellbound/ |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112150204/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/12/04/spellbound/ |url-status=live }} Dirda extolled his virtues in The Washington Post, attesting that Auster had "perfected a limpid, confessional style" and constructed suspenseful, sometimes autobiographical plots. His heroes operated in a world that appeared familiar but they confronted "vague menace and possible hallucination."{{Cite news |title=Strange things begin to happen when a writer buys a new notebook |last=Dirda |first=Michael |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=21 December 2003 |access-date=12 November 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2003/12/21/strange-things-begin-to-happen-when-a-writer-buys-a-new-notebook/00362b46-362a-499c-a1df-7b9db455846c/ |archive-date=August 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818111831/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2003/12/21/strange-things-begin-to-happen-when-a-writer-buys-a-new-notebook/00362b46-362a-499c-a1df-7b9db455846c/ |url-status=live }}

Writing about Auster's 2017 novel 4 3 2 1, Booklist critic Donna Seaman remarked that Auster went beyond conventions of storytelling and mixed genres, even crossing over into filmic modes. She praised the complex sense of wonder and gratitude in his works, which often features "sly humor" in an oeuvre which she considered "a grand experiment, not only in storytelling, but also in the endless nature-versus-nurture debate, the perpetual dance between inheritance and free will, intention and chance, dreams and fate. This elaborate investigation into the big what-if is also a mesmerizing dramatization of the multitude of clashing selves we each harbor within."{{Cite book|url=https://www.booklistonline.com/4-3-2-1-Auster-Paul/pid=8436919?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1|title=Booklist review: 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster|last=Seaman|first=Donna|date=November 15, 2016|via=Booklist|access-date=November 3, 2018|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806061708/https://www.booklistonline.com/4-3-2-1-Auster-Paul/pid=8436919?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1|url-status=live}}

The English critic James Wood criticized Auster for what he considered "borrowed language" and "bogus dialogue", nonetheless conceding that Auster was "probably America's best-known postmodern novelist". He noted: "One reads Auster's novels very fast, because they are lucidly written, because the grammar of the prose is the grammar of the most familiar realism (the kind that is, in fact, comfortingly artificial), and because the plots, full of sneaky turns and surprises and violent irruptions, have what the Times once called 'all the suspense and pace of a bestselling thriller'."{{cite magazine |last1=Wood |first1=James |title=Shallow Graves |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/30/shallow-graves |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=1 May 2024 |date=22 November 2009 |archive-date=April 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404214134/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/30/shallow-graves |url-status=live }}

File:Paul Auster John Ashbery BBF 2010 Shankbone.jpg at the Brooklyn Book Festival]]

Personal life and death

Auster's first marriage was to the writer Lydia Davis in 1974. They had one child together, their son Daniel Auster. By 1979 they were separated and were divorced in 1981.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/17/long-story-short|title=Long Story Short|first=Dana|last=Goodyear|magazine=The New Yorker |date=March 10, 2014|via=www.newyorker.com}} In 1981, Auster married his second wife, writer Siri Hustvedt, the daughter of professor and scholar Lloyd Hustvedt. They lived in Brooklyn and had one daughter, Sophie Auster, a singer.Denes, Melissa (February 3, 2006). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/04/gender.books "The dark side of happiness"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027231621/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/04/gender.books |date=October 27, 2017 }}. The Guardian.

Daniel Auster was arrested on April 16, 2022, and charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in the death of his 10-month-old infant daughter Ruby, who consumed some of the heroin and fentanyl he was using.{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/04/16/author-paul-auster-son-daniel-charged-manslaughter-fentanyl-death-infant-daughter/4051650150745/|title=Author Paul Auster's son charged with manslaughter for death of infant daughter|first=Adam|last=Schrader|publisher=UPI|date=April 16, 2022|access-date=April 28, 2022|archive-date=April 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220428160324/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/04/16/author-paul-auster-son-daniel-charged-manslaughter-fentanyl-death-infant-daughter/4051650150745/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Paul Auster, author of the New York trilogy, dies |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/paul-auster-author-of-the-new-york-trilogy-dies |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=The Bookseller |language=En}} Ruby had died five months previously, on November 1, 2021. At the time of the arrest, police remained unclear about how the baby could have ingested the drugs while lying beside her father when he was napping.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/nyregion/daniel-auster-fentanyl-arrest.html|title=Son of Author Paul Auster Charged in Fatal Overdose of Baby Daughter|first1=Karen|last1=Zraick|first2=Andy|last2=Newman|work=The New York Times |date=April 16, 2022|via=NYTimes.com}}

On April 26, 2022, Daniel Auster died from an overdose.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/daniel-paul-auster-son-death-overdose-b2067190.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/daniel-paul-auster-son-death-overdose-b2067190.html |archive-date=May 25, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Son of acclaimed author Paul Auster dies of overdose while awaiting trial for daughter's death|first=Maroosha|last=Muzaffar|work=The Independent|date=27 April 2022|access-date=April 28, 2022}} Daniel Auster was also known for his association with the Club Kids and their ringleader Michael Alig, and was present during the killing of fellow Club Kid Andre Melendez.{{Cite news |last=Vadukul |first=Alex |date=2022-07-27 |title=The Life and Death of Daniel Auster, a Son of Literary Brooklyn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/style/daniel-auster-life-death.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727154412/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/style/daniel-auster-life-death.html |archive-date=2022-07-27 |access-date=2023-01-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

Paul Auster characterized his politics as "far to the left of the Democratic Party", but said he voted Democratic because he doubted a socialist candidate could win.{{cite news |last1=Marlowe |first1=Lara |title=Auster feels US marginalises writers as film stars shape opinion |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/auster-feels-us-marginalises-writers-as-film-stars-shape-opinion-1.531074 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=15 September 2012 |access-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128075550/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/auster-feels-us-marginalises-writers-as-film-stars-shape-opinion-1.531074 |url-status=live }} He described right-wing Republicans as "jihadists",{{Cite web |last=Friedersdorf |first=Conor |date=2012-08-22 |title=Liberals Need to Start Holding Obama Responsible for His Policies |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/liberals-need-to-start-holding-obama-responsible-for-his-policies/261399/ |access-date=2023-11-18 |website=The Atlantic |language=en |archive-date=November 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118145840/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/liberals-need-to-start-holding-obama-responsible-for-his-policies/261399/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Maitlis |first1=Emily |title=Paul Auster on US election: 'I am scared out of my wits' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37865225 |work=BBC |date=3 November 2016 |access-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128085305/https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37865225 |url-status=live }} and the election of Donald Trump as "the most appalling thing I've seen in politics in my life".{{cite news |last1=Laity |first1=Paul |title=Paul Auster: 'I'm going to speak out as often as I can, otherwise I can't live with myself' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/20/paul-auster-4321-interview |work=The Guardian |date=29 November 2017 |access-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034045/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/20/paul-auster-4321-interview |url-status=live }}

On March 11, 2023, Auster's wife Siri Hustvedt revealed on Instagram that he had been diagnosed with cancer in December 2022, and that he had been treated at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York since then.{{Cite instagram |user=sirihustvedt |postid=CppuEReuA-Q | title=I have been away from Instagram for a while. |date=11 March 2023|access-date=27 July 2023}}{{cite web | url=https://time.news/new-york-writer-paul-auster-suffering-from-cancer-will-publish-a-new-novel/ | title=New York writer Paul Auster, suffering from cancer, will publish a new novel | date=August 31, 2023 | access-date=September 9, 2023 | archive-date=February 26, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226081851/https://time.news/new-york-writer-paul-auster-suffering-from-cancer-will-publish-a-new-novel/ | url-status=live }}

Paul Auster died of complications from lung cancer at his home in Brooklyn, on April 30, 2024, at the age of 77.{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Alex |title=Paul Auster, Prolific Author and Brooklyn Literary Star, Dies at 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html |access-date=1 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=30 April 2024 |archive-date=May 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501033727/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html |url-status=live }} He was survived by his wife Siri Hustvedt, their daughter Sophie Auster, his sister Janet Auster, and a grandson.{{cite web | url=https://www.hotpress.com/culture/the-new-york-trilogy-author-paul-auster-dies-aged-77-23021250 | title=New York Trilogy Author Paul Auster dies aged 77 }}

Awards and honors

1989 Prix France Culture de Littérature Étrangère{{Cite web |date= |title=Lauréats du Prix France Culture |url=http://calounet.pagesperso-orange.fr/prix_litteraires/laureats_franceculture.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120152911/http://calounet.pagesperso-orange.fr/prix_litteraires/laureats_franceculture.htm |archive-date=2016-01-20 |access-date=2022-11-11}}
1990 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters{{Cite web|url=https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2006-paul-auster.html?texto=trayectoria&especifica=0|title=Paul Auster - Laureates - Princess of Asturias Awards|first=Developed with webControl CMS by Intermark|last=IT|website=The Princess of Asturias Foundation}}{{cite web | url=https://www.artsandletters.org/search/?q=Paul+Auster | title=Search }}
1991 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction shortlist for The Music of Chance
1993 Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan
1995 Independent Spirit award for best first screenplay for Smoke
1996 Bodil Awards – Best American Film: Smoke{{cite web | url=https://www.famousfix.com/topic/smoke-1995-film/awards | title=Smoke Awards - List of awards won by Smoke, including award nominations - FamousFix }}
1996 John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence{{Cite web |title=The John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence |url=http://www.centenary.edu/english/events/corrington |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012044230/http://www.centenary.edu/english/events/corrington |archive-date=October 12, 2008 |access-date=August 25, 2008}}
2001 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Timbuktu{{cite web | url=https://www.librarything.com/award/945.0.0.2001/Dublin-Literary-Award-2001 | title=Dublin Literary Award | 2001 | Awards and Honors | LibraryThing }}
2003 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 16, 2011|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055929/https://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|url-status=live}}
2004 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist for The Book of Illusions{{Cite web |title=Paul Auster |url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/authors/paul-auster/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Dublin Literary Award |language=en-US |archive-date=December 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223232529/https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/authors/paul-auster/ |url-status=live }}
2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature{{Cite news |last=Creamer |first=Ella |date=2024-05-01 |title=Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/01/paul-auster-dies-aged-77-death-american-author-new-york-trilogy |access-date=2024-05-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=May 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501042213/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/01/paul-auster-dies-aged-77-death-american-author-new-york-trilogy |url-status=live }}
2006 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Literature
2007 Honorary doctor from the University of Liège
2007 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Brooklyn Follies{{cite web | url=https://www.librarything.com/award/945.3/Dublin-Literary-Award-Longlist | title=Dublin Literary Award | Longlist | Awards and Honors | LibraryThing }}
2007 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres{{cite web|url=http://cultureetloisirs.france3.fr/livres/actu/30251114-fr.php|title=Paul Auster décoré par la France à New York sur le site de France 3.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120235414/http://cultureetloisirs.france3.fr/livres/actu/30251114-fr.php|archive-date=November 20, 2007}}
2008 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Travels in the Scriptorium
2009 Premio Leteo (León, Spain){{Cite web |last= |date=2009-12-28 |title=Paul Auster afirma en León que escribir es una manera "bastante terrible de vivir" |url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20091228/paul-auster-afirma-en-leon-que-escribir-es-una-manera-bastante-terrible-de-vivir/308315.shtml |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=RTVE.es |language=es |archive-date=May 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501115026/https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20091228/paul-auster-afirma-en-leon-que-escribir-es-una-manera-bastante-terrible-de-vivir/308315.shtml |url-status=live }}
2010 Médaille Grand Vermeil de la ville de Paris[http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/paul-auster-decore-par-bertrand-delanoe_898784.html Paul Auster décoré par Bertrand Delanoë] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171124182421/http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/paul-auster-decore-par-bertrand-delanoe_898784.html |date=November 24, 2017 }} from the website of L'Express June 11, 2010
2010 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Man in the Dark
2011 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Invisible
2012 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Sunset Park
2012 NYC Literary Honors for fiction{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lit/html/2012_honors/2012_honorees.shtml|title=NYC Literary Honors – 2012 Honorees|work=nyc.gov|access-date=April 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514211426/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lit/html/2012_honors/2012_honorees.shtml|archive-date=May 14, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
2017 Booker Prize Shortlist for "4 3 2 1"{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/15/man-booker-prize-2017-shortlist-paul-auster-george-saunders-ali-smith-mohsin-hamid|title=Man Booker prize 2017: from Abraham Lincoln to Brexit Britain|last=McCrum|first=Robert|date=October 15, 2017|work=The Observer|access-date=26 October 2017|issn=0029-7712|archive-date=July 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715093629/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/15/man-booker-prize-2017-shortlist-paul-auster-george-saunders-ali-smith-mohsin-hamid|url-status=live}}
2019 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for 4 3 2 1

Published works

= Fiction =

Squeeze Play (1982) (written under pseudonym Paul Benjamin)
The New York Trilogy (1987) {{ISBN|9780140169638}}
City of Glass (1985)
Ghosts (1986)
The Locked Room (1986)
In the Country of Last Things (1987) {{ISBN|9780140097054}}
Moon Palace (1989) {{ISBN|9781101563816}}
The Music of Chance (1990) {{ISBN|9780140157390}}
Leviathan (1992)
Mr. Vertigo (1994)
Timbuktu (1999)
The Book of Illusions (2002)
Oracle Night (2003)
The Brooklyn Follies (2005)
Travels in the Scriptorium (2006)
Man in the Dark (2008)Another Paul Auster novel, 'Man in the Dark', was due to be published by Henry Holt in the U.S. on Monday September 1, 2008.[http://www.paulauster.co.uk/news.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215224719/http://www.paulauster.co.uk/news.htm|date=February 15, 2008}}
Invisible (2009){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/29/paul-auster-interview | work=The Guardian | first=Alison | last=Flood | title=Paul Auster talks to Alison Flood | date=October 29, 2008 | access-date=December 12, 2016 | archive-date=December 17, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217072813/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/29/paul-auster-interview | url-status=live }}
Sunset Park (2010){{cite news|last=Akbar |first=Arifa |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/innocence-of-youth-how-paul-auster-excavated-his-own-past-for-his-latest-novel-1811322.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/innocence-of-youth-how-paul-auster-excavated-his-own-past-for-his-latest-novel-1811322.html |archive-date=May 25, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Innocence of youth: How Paul Auster excavated his own past for his latest novel – Features – Books |work=The Independent |date=October 30, 2009 |access-date=20 April 2013}}
Day/Night (2013){{NoteTag|This reprints both Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark, together in a single volume}}
4 3 2 1 (2017){{Cite web |url=http://macmillan-services.supadu.com/macmillan-us/maccatalog/assets/current/HOL_Winter-2017_03_2016.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=May 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527185351/http://macmillan-services.supadu.com/macmillan-us/maccatalog/assets/current/HOL_Winter-2017_03_2016.pdf |archive-date=May 27, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}
Baumgartner (2023)

=Memoir=

The Invention of Solitude (1982)
The Red Notebook (1995) (originally printed in Granta (44); 1993)
Hand to Mouth (1997)
Winter Journal (2012)
Report from the Interior (2013)

=Nonfiction=

The Art of Hunger (1992)
Collected Prose (contains The Invention of Solitude, The Art of Hunger, The Red Notebook, and Hand to Mouth as well as various other previously uncollected pieces) (first edition, 2005; expanded second edition, 2010)
Here and Now: Letters, 2008–2011 (2013) A collection of letters exchanged with J. M. Coetzee
A Life in Words: In Conversation with I. B. Siegumfeldt (2017)
Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967–2017 (2019)
Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979–2012 (2020)
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (2021)
Long Live King Kobe: Following the Murder of Tyler Kobe Nichols [with photographs by Spencer Ostrander] (2022)
Bloodbath Nation [with photographs by Spencer Ostrander] (2023)Review: {{Cite web |last=O'Malley |first=J. P. |date=2023-03-07 |title=America built by 'religious fanatics who promoted armed struggle': Paul Auster |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/america-built-by-religious-fanatics-who-promoted-armed-struggle-paul-auster-20230306-p5cpqm.html |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en |archive-date=March 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307213325/https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/america-built-by-religious-fanatics-who-promoted-armed-struggle-paul-auster-20230306-p5cpqm.html |url-status=live }}

=Poetry=

Unearth (1974)
Wall Writing (1976)
Fragments from the Cold (1977)
Facing the Music (1980)
Disappearances: Selected Poems (1988)
Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays 1970–1979 (1990)
Collected Poems (2007)
White Spaces: Selected Poems and Early Prose (2020){{NoteTag|The contents of this book have been taken from the following previously published volumes: Unearth (Living Hand, 1974), Wall Writing (The Figures, 1976), Fragments from Cold (Parenthèse, 1977), White Spaces (Station Hill, 1980), Facing the Music (Station Hill, 1980), and The Art of Hunger (Menard Press, 1982). "Spokes" originally appeared in Poetry (March 1972); "First Words" is published here for the first time.}}

=Screenplays=

Smoke (1995)
Blue in the Face (1995){{Cite web |title=Paul Auster |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/244367-Paul-Auster |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=AFI. Catalog |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406200156/https://catalog.afi.com/Person/244367-Paul-Auster |url-status=live }}
Lulu on the Bridge (1998){{Cite web |title=Lulu on the Bridge |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150499793 |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=BFI Catalog}}
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007){{NoteTag|"The Inner Life of Martin Frost" is a fictional movie that is described in full in Auster's novel The Book of Illusions. It is the only film that David Zimmer —the protagonist of the latter novel— watches of Hector Mann's later, hidden films. It is the story of a man meeting a girl – an intense relationship with a touch of supernatural elements. Auster later created a real movie of the same name.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nysun.com/article/arts-auster-returns-to-the-directors-chair|title=Auster Returns to the Director's Chair | The New York Sun|date=May 6, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506160342/https://www.nysun.com/article/arts-auster-returns-to-the-directors-chair |archive-date=May 6, 2024 }} (also see "Other Media" section below).}}

=Edited collections=

The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry (1982)for more information about some of the poets included in this volume see: [http://www.maulpoix.net/US/settling.html French Poetry since 1950: Tendencies III] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928105921/http://www.maulpoix.net/US/settling.html |date=September 28, 2007 }} by Jean-Michel Maulpoix
True Tales of American Life (first published under the title I Thought My Father Was God, and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project) (2001){{Cite web |title=Paul Auster and True Tales of American Life {{!}} PDF |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/46890380/Paul-Auster-and-True-Tales-of-American-Life |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=Scribd |language=en}}

=Translations=

Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin, translated by Paul Auster, Living Hand Editions, 1974
"The Uninhabited: Selected Poems of André du Bouchet" (1976)
Life/Situations, by Jean-Paul Sartre (1977) (in collaboration with Lydia Davis)
Aboard the Aquitaine, by Georges Simenon (1979) (with Lydia Davis)
A Tomb for Anatole by Stéphane Mallarmé (1983)
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1998) (translation of Pierre Clastres' ethnography Chronique des indiens Guayaki)
Vicious Circles: Two fictions & "After the Fact", by Maurice Blanchot, 1999
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (2005)

=Miscellaneous=

Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990){{NoteTag|A Christmas story that first appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times on December 25, 1990. It led to Auster's collaboration on a film adaptation, "Smoke".}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/opinion/auggie-wrens-christmas-story.html|title=Auggie Wren's Christmas Story |department=Opinion |first=Paul |last=Auster|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 25, 1990|access-date=November 11, 2021|archive-date=November 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111152932/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/opinion/auggie-wrens-christmas-story.html|url-status=live}}
The Story of My Typewriter with paintings by Sam Messer (2002){{Cite book |title=The story of my typewriter |date=2002 |publisher=D.A.P |isbn=978-1-891024-32-0 |editor-last=Auster |editor-first=Paul |edition=1st |location=New York |editor-last2=Messer |editor-first2=Sam}}
"The Accidental Rebel" (April 23, 2008: article in The New York Times){{Cite web |last=Auster |first=Paul |date=April 23, 2008 |title=The Accidental Rebel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/opinion/23auster.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=February 19, 2017 |archive-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715064642/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/opinion/23auster.html |url-status=live }}
"ALONE" (2015) – Prose piece from 1969 published in six copies along with "Becoming the Other in Translation" (2014) by Siri Hustvedt. Published by Danish small press Ark Editions.{{Cite web |date=April 21, 2015 |title=Amerikanske forfatterstjerner hjælper miniboghandel på Nørrebro |url=http://politiken.dk/kultur/boger/ECE2636807/amerikanske-forfatterstjerner-hjaelper-miniboghandel-paa-noerrebro/ |access-date=April 23, 2015 |website=Politiken |archive-date=April 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425065612/http://politiken.dk/kultur/boger/ECE2636807/amerikanske-forfatterstjerner-hjaelper-miniboghandel-paa-noerrebro/ |url-status=live }}

Other media

In 1993, a movie adaptation of The Music of Chance was released. Auster features in a cameo role at the end of the film.
In 1994 City of Glass was adapted as a graphic novel by artist David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik.{{cite web | url=https://www.bookforum.com/print/1305/for-his-new-novel-paul-auster-recycles-old-characters-are-they-worth-bringing-back-71 | title=His Back Pages }} Auster's close friend, noted cartoonist Art Spiegelman, produced the adaptation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcj.com/city-of-glass-it-was-a-phone-call-that-started-it/|title=City of Glass: It Was a Phone Call That Started It|first=Bill|last=Kartalopoulos|date=July 17, 2023|website=The Comics Journal}}
In 1998, Auster was the executive producer on the short film I Remember from filmmaker Avi Zev Weider, who adapted it from Joe Brainard’s book I Remember.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/sundance_institute_annouces_2009_alfred_p_sloan_science_in_film_awards/|title=Sundance Institute Annouces 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Science-In-Film Awards - sundance.org|date=March 17, 2009}}{{Cite web|url=https://brooklyn.film/videos/i-remember/|title=I Remember | Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective|date=May 7, 2022}}{{NoteTag| Auster wrote that Brainard’s “I Remember is a masterpiece. One by one, the so-called important books of our time will be forgotten, but Joe Brainard's modest little gem will endure. In simple, forthright, declarative sentences, he charts the map of the human soul and permanently alters the way we look at the world. I Remember is both uproariously funny and deeply moving. It is also one of the few totally original books I have ever read.”{{cite book|last1=Brainard|first1=Joe|title=I Remember|date=2001|publisher=Granary Books|location=New York City}} note: this is Auster’s blurb on the back cover}}
From 1999 to 2001, Auster was part of NPR's National Story Project, a monthly radio show in which, together With NPR correspondent Jacki Lyden, Auster read stories sent in by NPR listeners across America.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2001/010707.story.html|title=NPR – Weekend All Things Considered: National Story Project|publisher=NPR|access-date=April 3, 2018|archive-date=February 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205174350/http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2001/010707.story.html|url-status=live}} Listeners were invited to send in stories of "anywhere from two paragraphs to two pages" that "must be true", from which Auster later selected entries, edited them and subsequently read them on the air.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/programs/watc/storyprojectsubmit.html|title=NPR – Weekend All Things Considered: National Story Project|publisher=NPR|access-date=April 3, 2018|archive-date=September 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902142546/http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/storyprojectsubmit.html|url-status=live}} Auster read over 4,000 stories submitted to the show,{{cite journal|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/121/the-art-of-fiction-no-178-paul-auster|title=Paul Auster, The Art of Fiction No. 178|author=Michael Wood|date=Fall 2003|journal=The Paris Review|volume=Fall 2003|issue=167|access-date=January 16, 2014|archive-date=November 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107144023/http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/121/the-art-of-fiction-no-178-paul-auster|url-status=live}} with a few dozen eventually featured on the show and many more anthologized in two 2002 books edited by Auster.{{Cite book|isbn=978-0-312-42100-7|title=I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project|last1=Auster|first1=Paul|last2=Reifler|first2=Nelly|date=September 7, 2002|publisher=Macmillan |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312421007}}{{Cite book|isbn=978-0-571-21070-1|title=True Tales of American Life|last1=Auster|first1=Paul|year=2002|publisher=Faber & Faber |url=https://archive.org/details/truetalesofameri00paul}}
Jazz trumpeter and composer Michael Mantler's 2001 album Hide and Seek borrows the words and language from Auster's short play Hide and Seek, which Mantler found in Auster's Hand to Mouth.{{Cite web|url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/michael-mantler-paul-auster-hide-and-seek-robert-wyatt-susi-hyldgaard/|title=Michael Mantler / Paul Auster: Hide and Seek|website=ECM Records}}
Don Delillo‘s 2003 novel Cosmopolis is dedicated to Auster.
Auster narrated "Ground Zero" (2004), an audio guide created by the Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) and SoundwalkBoxer, Sarah. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/arts/11walk.html?scp=3&sq=soundwalk&st=cse "Sounds of a Silent Place"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524062329/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/arts/11walk.html?scp=3&sq=soundwalk&st=cse |date=May 24, 2013}} The New York Times. September 11, 2004. Retrieved September 12, 2009. and produced by NPR,[http://www.soundwalk.com Soundwalk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628124913/http://soundwalk.com/ |date=June 28, 2018 }}. Retrieved September 12, 2009. which won the Dalton Pen Award for Multi-media/Audio (2005),[http://www.daltonpen.com/2005winners.asp Dalton Pen Communications Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929063741/http://www.daltonpen.com/2005winners.asp |date=September 29, 2008 }}. Retrieved September 17, 2009. and was nominated for an Audie Award for best Original Work (2005).[http://www.audiopub.org Audio Publishers Association] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822225741/http://www.audiopub.org/ |date=August 22, 2015 }}. Retrieved September 17, 2009.
Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth's composition ... ce qui arrive ... (2004) combines the recorded voice of Paul Auster reading from his books Hand to Mouth and The Red Notebook, either as straight recitation, integrated with other sounds as if in a radio play, or passed through an electronically realized string resonator so that the low tones interact with those of a string ensemble.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boosey.com/opera/moreDetails?musicID=46944|title=Olga Neuwirth ce qui arrive... - Opera|website=www.boosey.com}} A video by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster runs throughout the work featuring the cabaret artist and actress Georgette Dee.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/arts/music/olga-neuwirth.html|title=Olga Neuwirth|first=Vivien|last=Schweitzer|work=The New York Times |date=December 9, 2012|via=NYTimes.com}}
In 2005 his daughter, Sophie, recorded an album of songs in both French and English, entitled Sophie Auster, with the band One Ring Zero, which included a few songs that her father provided the lyrics for.{{Cite web|url=https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/one_ring_zero.html|title=One Ring Zero|website=www.albany.edu}}
Auster's voice may be heard on the 2005 album entitled We Must Be Losing It by The Farangs. The two tracks are entitled "Obituary in the Present Tense" and "Between the Lines".{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/758247-The-Farangs-We-Must-Be-Losing-It|title=The Farangs – We Must Be Losing It (2005, CD) - Discogs|website=Discogs }}
In 2006 Auster directed the film The Inner Life of Martin Frost, based on an original screenplay by him. It was shot in Lisbon and Azenhas do Mar and starred David Thewlis, Iréne Jacob, and Michael Imperioli as well as Auster's daughter Sophie. Auster provided the narration, albeit uncredited.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2007/film/reviews/the-inner-life-of-martin-frost-1200509491/|title=The Inner Life of Martin Frost|first=Ronnie|last=Scheib|date=March 22, 2007}} The film premiered at the European Film Market, as part of the 2007 Berlinale in Berlin, Germany on February 10, 2007, and opened in New York City on September 7 of the same year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/life-martin-frost-159191/|title=The Inner Life of Martin Frost|first=Richard James|last=Havis|website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=April 12, 2007}}
The lyrics of Fionn Regan's 2006 song "Put A Penny in the Slot" mention Auster and his novella Timbuktu.{{Cite web |title=The Red Notebook |url=https://evhospice.org.uk/us4/the+red+notebook |website=evhospice.org.uk}}
In the 2008 novel To the End of the Land by David Grossman, the bedroom bookshelf of the central IDF soldier character Ofer is described as prominently displaying several Auster titles.
In the 2009 documentary Act of God, Auster is interviewed on his experience of watching another boy struck and killed by lightning when he was 14.{{cite web |url=http://www.nowtoronto.com/guides/hotdocs/2009/hotdocs.cfm?content=169180 |title=Act of God |work=NOW |first=Norman |last=Wilner|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605054508/http://www.nowtoronto.com/guides/hotdocs/2009/hotdocs.cfm?content=169180 |archive-date=5 June 2011 }}
In the 2011 documentary on Charlotte Rampling The Look, Auster meditates on beauty with Rampling on his moored tug boat on the Hudson River.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/charlotte_rampling_the_look|title=Charlotte Rampling: The Look | Rotten Tomatoes|website=www.rottentomatoes.com}}

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[https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,3869612,00.html 'The Searcher'], interview with The Guardian in May 1999
{{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/121/the-art-of-fiction-no-178-paul-auster|title=Paul Auster, The Art of Fiction No. 178|author=Michael Wood|date=Fall 2003|journal=The Paris Review|volume=Fall 2003|issue=167}}
[http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/nov2001/paul_auster_interview.html 'An Interview with Paul Auster'], interview with 3:AM Magazine in November 2001
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070217160613/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article825554.ece 'Dem old Bush blues'], interview with The Times in April 2004
{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20111001065345/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/the-tyrannies-and-epiphanies-of-chance/ 'The Tyrannies and Epiphanies of Chance']}}, interview in the Oxonian Review in June 2004
[http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/paul_auster_and_siri_hustvedt/ 'Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt in conversation'] at the Key West Literary Seminar in September 2007 (audio)
[http://www.cordite.org.au/features/george-dunford-interviews-paul-auster George Dunford interviews Paul Auster], interview with Cordite Poetry Review in August 2008
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080913022444/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2008/09/interview_paul.php Interview: Paul Auster on His Newest Novel, Man in the Dark - Sound of the City - Village Voice] 'Interview: Paul Auster on His Newest Novel, Man in the Dark'], interview with Village Voice in September 2008
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090725150230/http://www.faber.co.uk/site-media/audio-snippets/auster_interview.mp3 Interview with Auster], discussing Man in the Dark with George Miller in November 2008 (audio)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110520053442/http://cle.ens-lyon.fr/39808285/0/fiche___pagelibre/ 'The mechanics of reality'], discussion between Paul Auster and school students in January 2009 (includes audio)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20170607141316/http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/first-person-singular/ A career evaluation] of Auster and his new memoir at Open Letters Monthly
[http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1939604,00.html I want to tell you a story] piece by Auster at The Guardian, November 6, 2006. The subtitle reads: "one of America's greatest living novelists, argues that fiction is 'magnificently useless', but the act of creation and the pleasure of reading are incomparable human joys that we should savour"
[http://www.pwf.cz/en/authors-archive/paul-auster/ Paul Auster]: Bio, excerpts, interviews and articles in the archives of the Prague Writers' Festival
[https://web.archive.org/web/20091129005851/http://cle.ens-lsh.fr/49289063/0/fiche___pagelibre/%26RH%3DCDL_ANG110402 'Dossier – The Brooklyn Follies'], a collection of essays on Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies (English and French), on La Clé des Langues
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150518053307/http://www.canal-l.com/index.php?id_video=315 Paul Auster presents Winter journal in Barcelona and talks about Mexico, Turkey, Iran and Occupy Wall Street movement, very interesting, book channel Canal-L]
[http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/paul-auster-how-i-became-writer How I Became a Writer. An interview with Paul Auster, 2015] Video by Louisiana Channel
[http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw Bookworm] Interviews (Audio) with Michael Silverblatt: [http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/paul-auster-1/ January 1993], [http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/paul-auster-2/ October 1999], [http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/paul-auster/ December 2002]
[https://areena.yle.fi/1-4219337 Sauli Niinistö & Paul Auster.] An interview conducted in 2017 by the President of Finland. Yleisradio.
[https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_7268954 Finding aid to the National Story Project records at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.]
{{cite podcast| url=https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2021-02/paul-auster-interviewpodcast-alles-gesagt|title=Paul Auster, Can You Tell Us the Story of America?|website=Alles Gesagt?| publisher=Zeit Online| host=Christoph Amend, Jochen Wegner| date=2021-02-11| access-date=2021-02-22}}