Popular US author Paul Auster, who wrote The New York Trilogy mystery novels, has passed away at the age of 77 due to lung cancer.

He was known for works including The New York Trilogy and 4321.

Called the “dean of American post-modernists” and “the most meta of American meta-fictional writers,” Auster blended history, politics, genre experiments, existential quests, and self-conscious references to writers and writing.

Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist behind the acclaimed “New York Trilogy,” has died. He was 77 years old. He died at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday from complications from lung cancer, according to the Associated Press and his friend and fellow writer Jacki Lyden.

Paul Auster, a renowned author and filmmaker known for his narratives, including works like "The New York Trilogy" and "4 3 2 1," has died at the age of 77.

Auster, who was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1947, had a long career not only as a celebrated novelist, but also as an essayist, translator, screenwriter and poet, whose work was published in more than 40 languages.

US author Paul Auster, who wrote the New York Trilogy mystery novels, has died at the age of 77. Auster wrote more than 30 books across his career and gained cult status in the 1980s and 90s. His novels were often existentialist stories about outsiders,