Paul Auster, the author of The New York Trilogy ... Auster’s career took off in 1982 with his memoir The Invention of Solitude. His first novel, City of Glass, was rejected 17 times before ...

Paul Auster never commented on publicly on his son’s death, but he had written often about parenthood. In “The Invention of Solitude,” published in 1982, he reflected on the “thousands of ...