Paul Auster , the prolific American writer and author of the "New York Trilogy" , has died from complications due to lung cancer : the New York Times reports. He was 77 years old .
Auster died at his home in Brooklyn, the newspaper writes, citing a friend of the writer, Jacki Lyden.
At the age of 73, Baumgartner wrote in a hospital bed . And just as he finished the novel he discovered that he was suffering from cancer.
Auster wrote books translated into over forty languages , sold millions of copies, was an essayist and director.
Protagonist of contemporary American literature, friend of Wim Wenders and Woody Allen with whom he shared a dispassionate love for the city where he lived, he is considered the master of Postmodernism together with his great friends Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo.
Among his best-known books are Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), Brooklyn Follies (2005).
(Unioneonline/vl)