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