Meny
Portrait image of Paul Auster Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

Sample of authors

Auster, Paul

American author from a Jewish family, born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents, Queenie and Samuel Auster, came from Poland. His father worked as a landlord. The family lived a simple middle-class life, but the marriage was unhappy. Queenie was thirteen years younger than Samuel when she married, and the couple were on the whole strangers to each other. Queenie Auster wanted to leave her husband,...

Further reading

Portrait image of Alice LaPlante Photo: Politics and Prose Bookstore (2011) CC BY-SA 2.0

Sample of authors

LaPlante, Alice

American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological crime novels. Her parents were both from Philadelphia, but moved to Washington the same year that she was born. The family moved on to Chicago in 1969, and settled down in the district of Arlington Heights. She studied at Buffalo Grove High School, and then studied at the...

Further reading