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Paul Auster

Biography

Paul Auster

Paul Auster (1947-2024) was the bestselling author of BAUMGARTNER, BLOODBATH NATION, 4 3 2 1, SUNSET PARK, THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS, MOON PALACE and the New York Trilogy, among many other works.

In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the Prix Médicis étranger for LEVIATHAN, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of SMOKE, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BURNING BOY, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His novel 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages.

Paul Auster

Books by Paul Auster

by Paul Auster

Mr. Vertigo is a genuinely fabulous tale, a page-turner as mythic as the American tall tale and as down-to-earth as a Kansas wheat field, as American as Prohibition and baseball, and as alien as a spiritual quest to conquer gravity itself.