(FILES) US writer Paul Auster delivers a speech during the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, on November 26, 2017. 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 REFUGIO RUIZ / AFP)