Editing Paul Auster (section)

==Early life==
Paul Auster was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]],<ref name=JPost>Freeman, John. [http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207159751661&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull "At home with Siri and Paul"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309124933/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207159751661&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |date=March 9, 2011 }}, ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', April 3, 2008. Retrieved September 19, 2008. "Like so many people in New York, both of them are spiritual refugees of a sort. Auster hails from Newark, New Jersey, and Hustvedt from Minnesota, where she was raised the daughter of a professor, among a clan of very tall siblings."</ref> son of Samuel Auster, a landlord who owned buildings with his brothers in Jersey City,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Alex |date=2024-05-01 |title=Paul Auster, the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, Dies at 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html |access-date=2024-06-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and Queenie, née Bogat. His [[middle-class]] parents were [[Jew]]ish, of Austrian descent; the marriage was an unhappy one, and they divorced during Auster's senior year of high school, he moving with his mother and sister to an apartment at [[Weequahic, Newark]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Auster - Part 1: The Apprentice Years (1947-1974) |url=https://www.uv.es/~fores/AcosoTextual/austerbio.html |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=www.uv.es}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GboRwPZNXzkC&pg=PA214 |title=Conversations with Paul Auster – Google Books |date=March 2013 |access-date=20 April 2013 |isbn=978-1-61703-736-8 |last1=Auster |first1=Paul |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |archive-date=May 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501115135/https://books.google.com/books?id=GboRwPZNXzkC&pg=PA214#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Taub|first1=Michael|last2=Shatzky|first2=Joel|title=Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook| url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat|url-access=registration| year=1997| publisher=Greenwood|pages=[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/13 13]–20|isbn=978-0-313-29462-4}}</ref> An uncle was the translator [[Allen Mandelbaum]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-12 |title=Paul Auster obituary: flamboyant writer who mixed autobiography and fiction |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/paul-auster-obituary-death-mf22r5z67 |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}}</ref> He grew up in [[South Orange, New Jersey]],<ref>Begley, Adam. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-92mag.html "Case of the Brooklyn Symbolist"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524103110/http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-92mag.html |date=May 24, 2013 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 30, 1992. Retrieved September 19, 2008. "The grandson of first-generation Jewish immigrants, he was born in Newark in 1947, grew up in South Orange and attended high school in Maplewood, 20 miles southwest of New York."</ref> and [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]],<ref>Auster, Paul. ''Winter Journal'' (New York, NY: Henry Holt, 2012), p. 61.</ref> and graduated from [[Columbia High School (New Jersey)|Columbia High School]] in [[Maplewood, New Jersey|Maplewood]].<ref>Freeman, Hadley. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/26/fiction.fashion "American dreams: He may be known as one of New York's coolest chroniclers, but Paul Auster grew up in suburban New Jersey and worked on an oil tanker before achieving literary success. Hadley Freeman meets a modernist with some very traditional views"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310154544/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/26/fiction.fashion |date=March 10, 2017 }}, ''[[The Guardian]]'', October 26, 2002. Retrieved September 19, 2008. "Education: Columbia High School, New Jersey; 1965–69 Columbia College, New York; '69–70 Columbia University, New York (quit after one year)"</ref>

During the summers of 1958 and 1959, Auster attended, respectively, Camp LakeView (East Brunswick, NJ) and Camp Pontiac (Copake, NY), where his outstanding athletic talents were recognized, especially as a baseball infielder.  While attending summer camp, the 14-year-old Auster witnessed what he called the "seminal experience" of his life:<ref name="conversation">{{Cite web|url=http://theconversation.com/an-american-writer-with-a-european-sensibility-paul-auster-viewed-his-society-from-an-oblique-angle-229118|title=An American writer with a European sensibility, Paul Auster viewed his society from an oblique angle|first=Paul|last=Giles|date=May 3, 2024|website=The Conversation}}</ref> a boy being struck by lightning and dying instantly.<ref name="auto2">{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/05/01/paul-auster-the-new-york-trilogy-music-of-chance-fiction/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501180811/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/05/01/paul-auster-the-new-york-trilogy-music-of-chance-fiction/ | archive-date=May 1, 2024 | title=Paul Auster, screenwriter and novelist best known for the New York Trilogy – obituary | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=May 2024 | last1=Obituaries | first1=Telegraph }}</ref> The boy was standing a few inches away from him at the time. This event changed his life, thinking about it every day.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Creamer |first=Ella |date=2024-05-01 |title=Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/01/paul-auster-dies-aged-77-death-american-author-new-york-trilogy |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>