Paul Auster, Author of ‘The New York Trilogy,’ Dead at 77 [Video]

Novelist and screenwriter Paul Auster, known for writing the The New York Trilogy and 4 3 2 1, has died at the age of 77.

Auster died of complications due to lung cancer in his Brooklyn home on Tuesday, April 30, his friend Jacki Lyden confirmed, according to The New York Times, BBC News and Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Lyden described Auster to the AFP as a “writer’s writer” who often wrote about “every facet of loss, loneliness, and the joys and sorrows of a life in words” — something which she says helped connect people to the stories he told.

“He never lost touch with human suffering, and connectedness, and it made him the beloved writer he has become,” she said.

Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1937 and moved to New York to attend Columbia University, per the Times, AFP and NPR. He lived …