Author

Paul Auster

2 award wins, 7 nominations across 7 books.

Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024) was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include *The New York Trilogy* (1987), *Moon Palace* (1989), *The Music of Chance* (1990), *The Book of Illusions* (2002), *The Brooklyn Follies* (2005), *Invisible* (2009), *Sunset Park* (2010), *Winter Journal* (2012), and *4 3 2 1* (2017). His books have been translated into more than 40 languages.

4 3 2 1Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen CraneCity of GlassInvisibleMan in the DarkSunset ParkThe Book of Illusions
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4 3 2 1

2 Nominations

Published 2017-01-31 · 960 pages

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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

1 Award Won
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City of Glass

1 Nomination

203 pages

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Invisible

1 Nomination

Published 2009-10-27 · 299 pages

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and a student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker is caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

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Man in the Dark

1 Nomination

Published 2008-08-01 · 192 pages

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Sunset Park

1 Nomination

Published 2010-11-09 · 298 pages

After falling in love with an underage girl and stirring the wrath of her older sister, New York native Miles Heller flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.

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The Book of Illusions

1 Award Won1 Nomination

338 pages

One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh . . .Mann was a comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was never heard from again.

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