Paul Auster, a prolific novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter, died at the age of 77 in his home in Brooklyn. He was known for his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and his memoir "The Invention of Solitude." Auster's work often explored themes of pain and loss, and he was known for his fractured narrative, unreliable narrator, and deconstruction of identity. He won several literary ...