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Paul Auster Dies: Author Of ‘The New York Trilogy,’ Screenwriter & Director Was 77


Auster wrote the screenplay for Wayne Wang's 'Smoke' and 'The Center of the World' and directed 'Lulu on the Bridge.'

Paul Auster, the celebrated author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, writer Wayne Wang’s Smoke and director of Lulu on the Bridge, has died. He later wrote films himself, beginning with his screenplay for Wayne Wang’s Smoke(1995) starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt and Giancarlo Esposito. His collaboration with Wang continued as the duo co-directed a sequel, called Blue in the Face, again starring Keitel and Esposito along with Lou Reed, Mira Sorvino and Madonna.

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