PAUL OSTER

As reported by his colleague Jackie Leiden, Oster died on Tuesday due to complications from the lung cancer he had been suffering from for the last few years. Auster primarily wrote detective mystery stories, through which he dealt with existential issues while raising questions about human identity, creating his own recognizable style of writing. Often … Read more

The author of the “New York Trilogy,” crime-inspired noirs, and more than 30 books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages, was diagnosed with lung cancer last year a year after his son’s death from overdose. Auster became known for his “highly stylized, idiosyncraticly enigmatic postmodern fiction, in which the narrators are rarely … Read more