Paul Auster, author of The New York Trilogy and the screenplay for the movie Smoke is the 1995-1996 recipient of the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence. He was born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Columbia University. He has written in many formats: poetry, novels, and screenplays.
Paul Auster began publishing articles on books and films in The Columbia Daily Spectator and the Columbia Spectator. His influences include French poets Francis Ponge and Andre du Bouchet, novelist and friend H.L. Humes, and writers James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Thoreau.
Most recently, Auster has served as a member of the jury of the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. He has gained fame and notoriety for such successful films as Smoke and Blue in the Face, which were both made in 1993. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, where he is working on another film called Lulu On The Bridge.
OTHER MAJOR WORKS:
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Disappearances: Selected Poems (1979)
The Invention of Solitude (1980)
