A New Jersey native who ultimately made Brooklyn his home, Auster wrote 34 books throughout his career, including the New York Trilogy, which began with City of Glass, the 1985 novel that wound up being Auster’s breakthrough (after it was first rejected by 17 publishers,

Paul Auster, the acclaimed novelist hailed as the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, has passed away at 77. Auster died due to complications from lung cancer at his Brooklyn home, an illness he had been battling since 2022.