Paul Auster

Person · Open Library

Born

3 February 1947

Died

30 April 2024

Works

387

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1947-02-03

Active to

2024-04-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,475

Total plays

54,442

Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends 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). Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent, Queenie (née Bogat) and Samuel Auster. <a href="https://www.l

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

   · 1958 · cited 70,798x

2. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 68,248x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,761x

4. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

   · 2003 · cited 45,669x

5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,382x

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Quotes

• “The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”
• “Men don't begin to live fully until their backs are against the wall.”
• “That's what makes his story so impossible, David. Because he's told me the truth. (Alma to David on Hector)”
• “If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it fall, does it make a sound or not? Hector had read a lot of books by then, he knew all the tricks and arguments of the philosophers. If someone makes a movie and no one sees it, does the movie exist or not?”
• “I didn't say I was afraid of dying, I answered, I said that I was afraid to get on a plane. There is a difference. (David to Dr. Singh)”
• “[G]overnments always need enemies, even when they're not at war. If you don't have a real enemy, you make one up and spread the word. It scares the population, and when the people are scared, they tend not to step out of line.”

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Official website

Paul Auster | Author of 4 3 2 1

4 3 2 1 is Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself., 4 3 2 1 is Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece., 4 3 2 1 is Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece., 4 3 2 1 is Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Benjamin

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Newark

Place of death

New York City

Spouse

Siri Hustvedt

Child

Sophie Auster

Employer

Columbia University

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Notable work

The New York Trilogy

Genre

prose

Official website

paul-auster.com

Image

Paul Auster BBF 2010 Shankbone.jpg

Number of children

2

Work location

United States

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