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Paul Auster, New York Trilogy author, dies just two years after deaths of son and granddaughter


Paul Auster, the award-winning author of The New York Trilogy, has died at the age of 77 after a battle with lung cancer, his friend and fellow author Jacki Lyden has confirmed

His writing style was characterized by Joyce Carol Oates in 2010 as "highly stylised, quirkily riddlesome postmodernist fiction in which narrators are rarely other than unreliable and the bedrock of plot is continually shifting". Paul Auster, New York Trilogy author, has died after a battle with cancer (Image: Getty) Read MoreRelated Articles Loose Women's Coleen Nolan 'offended' as she begs 'please sort it out' Another shared their grief, posting: "Devastated to hear Paul Auster passed, one of my favorite contemporary authors, whose prose was matched only by his four-dimensional imagination.

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