Paul Auster, author who explored New York and life's riddles, dies at 77

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Paul Auster, a celebrated American novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who used New York — and in particular his beloved Brooklyn — as a canvas for tales populated with characters groping for meaning amid the randomness of chance and life-altering events, died April 30 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 77.