Paul Auster, the acclaimed American author of “The New York Trilogy,” has died at age 77.
Auster, who was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1947, had a long career not only as a celebrated novelist, but also as an essayist, translator, screenwriter and poet, whose work was published in more than 40 languages. A host of media outlets reported that Auster’s death was confirmed by his friend and fellow author Jacki Lyden. Auster began translating the works of French writers when he moved to France after graduating from Columbia University in 1970.
In an interview with the BBC prior to the 2012 publication of his autobiographical work “Winter Journal,” Auster said chance and coincidence are what he described as the “mechanics of reality.” He explained: “Unexpected things are happening all the time to everybody and in fact much of life is about chance. There are very few necessary facts. I suppose the only ones are once you are born you are destined to die and pretty much everything in between is up for grabs.
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