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Paul Auster: A Brief Biography
Part 1: The Apprentice Years (1947-1974)
A youthful Auster graces the cover of the memoir Hand to Mouth, published by Henry Holt in 1997. You can order your copy from Amazon, buy it at Borders, or track it down at whatever bookstore is handy. A brief review is available on your host's Recent Reading page.
Paul Auster was conceived while his parents were on their honeymoon in Niagara Falls, and was born in Newark, New Jersey on 3 February 1947. His father, Samuel Auster, was a landlord, who owned buildings with his brothers in Jersery City. His mother, Queenie Auster, was some 13 years younger than her husband. The family was middle-class, the parents' marriage an unhappy one. Queenie had realized, even before the end of the honeymoon, that the marriage had been a mistake, but her pregnancy made escape impossible.
Auster grew up in the Newark suburbs of South Orange and Maplewood. When he was 3½ years old, a younger sister was bo Paul auster books.