Person

Paul Auster

Writing · 1947–2024 · Newark, New Jersey, USA

Paul Benjamin Auster was an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002) and The Brooklyn Follies (2005).

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  Apostrophes

  Self

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  Bonnie

  Self

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  Blue in the Face

  Director

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  Smoke

  Writer

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  The Center of the World

  Story

• I Remember

  Executive Producer

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  Lulu on the Bridge

  Writer

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  Edge of Outside

  Self

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  Le carnet rouge

  Original Film Writer

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  The Music of Chance

  1993

• 2026Siri Hustvedt – Dance Around the SelfSelf
• 2022BonnieSelf
• 2020In the Country of Last ThingsNovel
• 2019Paul Auster: What IfSelf - Writer
• 2017Out of My Head
• 2015It Was MineAuthor
• 2011Charlotte Rampling: The LookSelf
• 2009Act of Godhimself
• 2009Amos Oz: The Nature of DreamsSelf
• 2008DocHimself
• 2007The Inner Life of Martin FrostNarrator (voice)
• 2006Edge of OutsideSelf
• 2005As Smart As They Are: The Author ProjectHimself
• 2001The Center of the WorldStory
• 1999I RememberExecutive Producer
• 1998Lulu on the BridgeWriter
• 1995Blue in the FaceDirector
• 1995SmokeWriter
• 1993The Music of Chance
• 1992The AccompanistThanks
• 1975ApostrophesSelf
• 1969The Fall
• —Running Off to the Circus: Paul Auster on FilmHimself
• —Le carnet rougeOriginal Film Writer