PAUL AUSTER (b. 1947) is an American novelist, essayist, translator, and poet whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, and crime fiction.

Following his acclaimed debut work, THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE (1982), a memoir about the death of his father and a meditation on the act of writing, Auster gained renown for a series of three loosely connected detective stories published collectively as THE NEW YORK TRILOGY (1987).  These books are not conventional detective stories organized around a mystery and a series of clues.  Rather, he uses the detective form to address existential issues and questions of identity, space, language, and literature, creating his own distinctively postmodern (and critique of postmodernist) form in the process.

The search for identity and personal meaning has permeated Auster's later publications, many of which concentrate heavily on the role of coincidence and random events (THE MUSIC OF CHANCE [1990]) or increasingly, the relationships between people and their peers and environment (THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS [2002], MOON PALACE [1989]).  Auster's heroes often find themselves obliged to work as part of someone else's inscrutable and larger-than-life schemes.

Because much of his fiction often features the author in variously explicit and veiled incarnations, critics frequently speculated on the extent to which he employed elements of autobiography.  The biography of the protagonist of INVISIBLE (2009), for example, closely resembles Auster's own, but the plot -- which delves into murder and incest -- is clearly fictional.  Though expressly nonfiction, the pointedly unstudied and fragmentary WINTER JOURNAL (2012) was written in the second person and comprised self-reflective meditations interspersed with enumerations of Auster's experiences, preferences, and travels.  A companion volume, REPORT FROM THE INTERIOR (2013), arrayed a similarly eclectic selection of anecdotes alongside deeper analyses of some of his cinematic influences and a selection of letters exchanged with his ex-wife, writer Lydia Davis.

4 3 2 1, the first new Auster novel to have appeared in seven years, was released in January 2017.

In addition to his many novels, this collection includes poetry, screenplays, essays, letters, interviews, and non-fiction.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:


                                == FICTION ==

* 4 3 2 1 (Holt, 2017)
* Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (Holt, 2004)
* Book of Illusions, The (Faber & Faber, 2002)
* Brooklyn Follies, The (Picador, 2006)
* Day/Night: Two Novels (Picador, 2013)
* In the Country of Last Things (Penguin, 1988)
* Invisible (Holt, 2009)
* Leviathan (Penguin, 1993)
* Man in the Dark (Holt, 2008)
* Moon Palace (Penguin, 1990)
* Mr. Vertigo (Penguin, 1995)
* Music of Chance, The (Penguin, 1991)
* New York Trilogy, The (Penguin, 2006) -- ePUB + PDF
	- City of Glass (1985)
	- Ghosts (1986)
	- The Locked Room (1986)
* Oracle Night (Picador, 2004)
* Squeeze Play [as Paul Benjamin] (Faber & Faber, 1991) -- PDF
* Sunset Park (Holt, 2010)
* Timbuktu (Picador, 2000)
* Travels in the Scriptorium (Faber & Faber, 2006)


                           == POETRY & SCREENPLAYS ==

* 3 Films: Smoke/Blue in the Face/Lulu on the Bridge (Picador, 2003)
* Collected Poems (Overlook, 2004)
* Inner Life of Martin Frost: A Film (Picador, 2010)


                      == ESSAYS, LETTERS & NON-FICTION  ==

* Art of Fiction, The [interview] (Paris Review, Fall 2003) -- PDF
* Art of Hunger, The (Penguin, 1997).  Expanded edition. -- PDF
* Collected Prose (Picador, 2010).  Expanded edition.
* Conversations with Paul Auster (Mississippi, 2013) -- ePUB + PDF
* Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure (Picador, 2012)
* Here and Now: Letters, 2008-2011 [with JM Coetzee] (Penguin, 2013)
* Invention of Solitude, The (Penguin, 2007)
* Red Notebook, The (New Directions, 2002)
* Report from the Interior (Holt, 2013)
* Winter Journal (McClelland & Stewart, 2012)


                             == EDITED WORKS ==

* I Thought My Father Was God (Picador, 2012)

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