He was a jack of all trades in writing. Paul Auster, prolific American author of novels, poems and films, has died of complications from lung cancer at the age of 77, the New York Times Tuesday.
Paul Auster died at his home in Brooklyn, New York, said the daily, citing a friend of the novelist. His cancer diagnosis was announced last year by his wife, the writer Siri Hustvedt.
A philosophical twist on the detective novel genre
Born in New Jersey, Paul Auster became a New York literary icon with his New York trilogy published in 1987 and which gave a philosophical twist to the detective novel genre.
Also a screenwriter, Paul Auster contributed to the film Smoke, which portrays lost souls gravitating around a Brooklyn tobacco shop. Among his other successful works are: Moon Palace, The Book of Illusions And Brooklyn Follies.