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Paul Auster

1947 - 2024

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Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024) was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than 40 languages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Auster is the 296th most popular writer (up from 366th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from United States (up from 347th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Writer.

Paul Auster is an American author, best known for his novels "The New York Trilogy" and "In the Country of Last Things".

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Among writers, Paul Auster ranks 296 out of 7,302. Before him are Claude Simon, Luigi Pirandello, Jacob Grimm, Bram Stoker, Walt Whitman, and Alfonso X of Castile. After him are Karen Blixen, Alphonse Daudet, François de La Rochefoucauld, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Guillaume de Machaut, and Arthur Miller.

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Among people born in 1947, Paul Auster ranks 21. Before him are Mary Simon, O. J. Simpson, James Hunt, Mario Draghi, Shirin Ebadi, and Anwar Ibrahim. After him are Mohammad Najibullah, Carlos Santana, Iggy Pop, Herman Van Rompuy, Glenn Close, and Robert Kiyosaki. Among people deceased in 2024, Paul Auster ranks 9. Before him are Franz Beckenbauer, Manmohan Singh, Maggie Smith, Donald Sutherland, O. J. Simpson, and Fethullah Gülen. After him are Mário Zagallo, Ismail Kadare, William Anders, Alberto Fujimori, Peter Higgs, and Maria Branyas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Auster ranks 317 out of 20,380. Before him are Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Billy the Kid (1859), Steve Bannon (1953), John R. Bolton (1948), Jay-Z (1969), and Walt Whitman (1819). After him are Donald A. Glaser (1926), Paulette Goddard (1910), John Young (1930), Scatman John (1942), Brian Wilson (1942), and Sammy Davis Jr. (1925).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Paul Auster ranks 30. Before him are J. D. Salinger (1919), Truman Capote (1924), Joseph Heller (1923), Dale Carnegie (1888), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), and Walt Whitman (1819). After him are Arthur Miller (1915), Herman Melville (1819), Philip K. Dick (1928), Mario Puzo (1920), J. D. Vance (1984), and O. Henry (1862).

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