Paul Auster
Paul Auster · Arts & Literature
American novelist ('The New York Trilogy')
1947, Newark, New Jersey, United States — 2024, Brooklyn, New York, United States
United States · France
Paul Auster is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — American novelist ('The New York Trilogy')
Paul Auster was an American Jewish novelist whose postmodern, metafictional works — above all 'The New York Trilogy' — earned him international acclaim and a wide following in Europe. Raised in a secular Jewish family in New Jersey, he wove questions of chance, identity and language through his fiction, memoirs and films.
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American novelist ('The New York Trilogy')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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