Paul Auster died Tuesday night at his home in Brooklyn due to complications from lung cancer. He was 77 years old.
Her death was confirmed by a friend, Jacki Lyden, according to The New York Times.
The prolific novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern revival of crime fiction and He endured to become one of the emblematic New York writers of his generation.
His career began to take off in 1982, with his memoirs “The Invention of Solitude,” a haunting reflection on his distant relationship with his recently deceased father. Her first novel, “Crystal City,” was rejected by 17 publishers before being published by a small California press in 1985.
The book became the first installment of his most famous work, “The New York Trilogy,” three novels later packaged into a single volume. It was listed as one of the 25 most important New York novels of the last 100 years in a summary of T, the style magazine published by The New York Times.
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