Experts
Paul Auster
Author
The author shares one of the “ranting inner monologues” that make him toss and turn. Read More
With skyscrapers rising and infrastructure rotting, novelist Paul Auster explains what makes him “wistful” about his changing city. Read More
The novelist believes that it's “the burning need to do it,” not to be praised, that spurs great writing. Read More
Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees. Read More
Known for bending genres and playing with the paradoxes of identity, Paul Auster explains what anchors his novels in the personal and the real. Read More
For a young future author, traveling in France after drawing a high number in the Vietnam draft, the opportunity to live abroad was as lucky as escaping war. Read More
For “Invisible” author Paul Auster, writing novels never gets easier, yet he no longer dreads the blank page. Read More
About Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster is an author and poet who has gained acclaim over a diverse 30-year career, in which he has published many volumes of poetry and essays as well as 20 novels, now widely translated. His work also extends to the translation of the work of foreign writers, including French writers Stéphane Mallarmé and Joseph Joubert. He is arguably best known for his three experimental detective stories, collectively referred to as The New York Trilogy ("City of Glass," 1985; "Ghosts," 1986; "The Locked Room," 1986). His latest novel, "Invisible," was released by Henry Holt and Co. in October 2009. His first marriage was to the writer Lydia Davis in 1974; his second to the novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt in 1981. He has two children, Daniel and Sophie, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.