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Paul Auster Biography (1947-)

Born February 3, 1947, in Newark, NJ; son of Samuel and Queenie (Bogat) Auster; married Lydia Davis, October 6, 1974 (divorced 1979); married Siri Hustvedt, June 16, 1981; children: (first marriage) Daniel, (second marriage) Sophie. Career: Writer, director, actor. Lived in France (1971-74) working at odd jobs and writing poetry; lectured at Princeton University 1986-90. Member: PEN Awards, Honors: fellow, National Endowment for the Arts, 1979 and 1985; Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, fiction writer, American Academyand Institute of Arts and Letters, 1990; Chevalier de l'Orde des Arts et desLettres, 1992; Prix Medicis Etranger, best foreign novel, 1993, for Leviathan; Cesar Award nomination (with Wayne Wang), best foreign film, and Independent Spirit Award, best first screenplay, both 1995, for Smoke. Addresses: Agent: Carol Mann Agency, 55 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10003.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer, director, actor

Birth Details

February 3, 1947

Newark, New Jersey, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Work
• Director, Unless Otherwise Noted
• Co-director (with Wayne Wang), Smoke, Miramax, 1995
• Blue in the Face, Miramax, 1995
• Lulu on the Bridge, Trimark, 1998
• Film Appearances
• Driver, The Music of Chance, IRS Releasing, 1993
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• Smoke, Miramax, 1995
• Blue in the Face, Miramax, 1995
• Lulu on the Bridge, Trimark, 1998
• Novels
• City of Glass, Sun & Moon Press (Los Angeles), 1985
• Ghosts, Sun & Moon Press, 1986
• The Locked Room, Sun & Moon Press, 1986
• In the Country of Last Things, Viking (New York City), 1987
• Moon Place, Viking, 1989
• The Music of Chance, Viking, 1990
• Leviathan, Viking, 1992
• Mr. Vertigo, Viking, 1994
• Poetry
• Unearth: Poems, 1970-72, Living Hand, 1974
• Wall Writing: Poems, 1971-75, Figures (Berkeley, CA), 1976
• Fragments from Cold, 1977
• Facing the Music, Station Hill, 1980
• Disappearances: Selected Poems, Overlook Press (Woodstock, NY), 1988
• Nonfiction
• White Spaces, Station Hill, 1980
• The Invention of Solitude, SUN (New York City), 1982
• The Art of Hunger, 1982 (expanded edition 1992
• The Red Notebook and Other Writings, Faber (London), 1995
• Why Write?, Burning Deck (Providence), 1996
• Translations, 1997
• Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure, 1997
• Other
• Editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry,Random House (New York City), 1982
• Also published Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays 1970-1979, and New York Trilogy.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

• New York Times, October 5, 1995, p. C1.*