02 May 2024 - Paul Auster dies aged 77
A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more
Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert McCrum, Colm McCann, Benjamin Markovits and Sinéad Gleeson (The Guardian, 01/04/2024)
The critically acclaimed American writer has died aged 77. Here, contemporaries pay tribute to his life and work.
Paul Auster: Americans are divided like never before
(BBC News, 01/05/2024)
US author Paul Auster, whose novels and screenplays reflected the vibrant, complex cultural melting pot of New York, has died at the age of 77.
Watch a clip from a HARDtalk interview he gave in 2021, in which he reflects on culture wars in the United States.
Paul Auster’s literary legacy
Erica Wagner (The New Stateman, 01/05/2024)
“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.” So begins City of Glass, the first book in what became Paul Auster’s acclaimed New York Trilogy.
Why Write?
Paul Auster (The New Yorker, 17/12/1995)
A German friend tells of the circumstances that preceded the births of her two daughters.