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 ...

Featuring a character called Paul Auster, who ... distorting reality the way dreams do,” he writes in The Invention of Solitude. Auster almost never spoke publicly about Daniel, but a ...

Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist ... the AP said. “The Invention of Solitude,” a memoir that dealt with the death of his father, garnered favorable reviews upon its publication ...

Paul Auster attended Columbia University and spent four years in France after graduating. It was the sudden death of his father that led him to write The Invention of Solitude in 1982. However ...

Paul Auster made no secret of his political ... At best, he achieved critical praise in 1982 with the memoir "The Invention of Solitude.” To earn a living, Auster taught at Columbia University ...

Paul Auster, the prolific Brooklyn-based ... began to take off with the 1982 publication of his memoir The Invention of Solitude, about his chilly relationship with his late father.

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 ...