Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But one person's presumptuousness is another's winning audacity, and Crane's overreach is among the many traits that fascinate ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as "The New York Trilogy" and "4 3 2 1," has died at age 77.

The novelist, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster was a master storyteller. He died two years ago this week, but his afterlife shows no loss of narrative grip. On his deathbed, Auster said: “I want to come ...

Daniel Auster, the son of author Paul Auster, died from what the New York City Police Department suspects was an accidental overdose. Daniel Auster, 44, died on Tuesday after being taken off life ...

Daniel Auster, the son of renowned Brooklyn author Paul Auster, died of a suspected drug overdose while out on bail on manslaughter charges for the overdose death of his 10-month-old daughter, police ...

Paul Auster doesn't take living for granted. At 65, the author has had several "near misses," from sliding face-first into a jutting nail as a child to a traumatic car accident that almost killed him, ...

Seen through the lens of our moment, Stephen Crane can appear wildly presumptuous, a writer chronically inclined toward cultural appropriation. His first novel, 1893’s “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,” ...