Paul Auster

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Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947, Newark, New Jersey) is a Brooklyn-based author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction. He is also a poet, translator, editor, screenwriter, and, more recently, film director.<p>Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish decent Samuel and Queenie Auster. He attended school in Maplewood, New Jersey and graduated from Columbia High School. After graduating from Columbia University in 1970, he moved to France where he earned a living translating French literature. Since returning to USA in 1974, he has published his own poems, essays, novels and translations of French writers such as Stéphane Mallarmé and Joseph Joubert.<p>He married his second wife, writer Siri Hustvedt, in 1981. Previously, Auster was married to the acclaimed writer Lydia Davis. He is the father of Daniel and Sophie.<p>He is also the Vice-President of PEN American Center<p>Auster gained renown for a series of three experimental...