Paul Auster is the best-sell­ing author of Man in the Dark, The Brook­lyn Fol­lies, The Book of Illu­sions, The New York Tril­o­gy, among many oth­er works. In 2006 he was award­ed the Prince of Asturias Prize for Lit­er­a­ture and induct­ed into the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Arts and Let­ters. Among his oth­er hon­ours are the Inde­pen­dent Spir­it Award for the screen­play of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-list­ed for both the Inter­na­tion­al IMPAC Dublin Lit­er­ary Award (The Book of Illu­sions) and the PEN/​Faulkner Award for Fic­tion (The Music of Chance). His work has been trans­lat­ed into more than thir­ty lan­guages. He lived in Brook­lyn, New York.