Paul Auster

From Paul Auster's Q & A with Anna Metcalfe of the Financial Times:

Who are your literary heroes?

Shakespeare, Montaigne, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Hawthorne and Melville.

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What novel would you give a child to introduce them to literature?

I gave my daughter Wuthering Heights when she was 11 or 12.

Read the complete Q & A.

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