His breakthrough 1985 novel, “City of Glass,” combined hard-boiled detective fiction with existential inquiry and featured a character called Paul Auster. Its 1986 follow-ups, "Ghosts" and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Auster, a prolific ... “The New York Trilogy,” which included “City of Glass,” “Ghosts” and “The Locked Room,” was a postmodern detective saga in which ...

He made his debut as Paul Auster with "City of Glass," followed by 1986's "Ghosts" and "The Locked Room," later collected as a single volume in "The New York Trilogy" in 1987. A film adaptation of ...