(FILES) US director-author, Paul Auster poses, 11 October 2007 in Paris, prior to the presentation of his latest film "The Inner Life of Martin Frost". It is Auster's third film as a director after "Blue in the Face" co-directed with Wayne Wange in 1995 and "Lulu on the Bridge," showed in competition at Cannes in 1998. Paul Auster, the prolific American author whose works included "The New York Trilogy," has died of complications from lung cancer, the New York Times reported April 30, 2024. He was 77. Auster died at his home in Brooklyn, the newspaper said, citing a friend of the novelist, Jacki Lyden. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)