US author Paul Auster dies aged 77 after a battle with cancer [Video]

Renowned author Paul Auster, who wrote a total of 34 books of which the New York Trilogy stands out, has passed away at the age of 77.

According to his colleague Jackie Linden, Auster died on Tuesday due to complications from the lung cancer he had been suffering from in recent years.

Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1947 and according to him, his writing life began at the age of 8 when he was unable to get an autograph from baseball player Willie Mays because neither he nor his parents had a pencil with them at the game.

From then on, he took a pencil with him everywhere he went. “If there is a pencil in your pocket, there is a good chance that one day you will be tempted to start using it,” he wrote in a 1995 essay.

Another incident that marked his life was …