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 [[Image:Auster.jpg|thumb|Auster on the cover of ''[[Columbia College Today]]'' <ref> [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/mar_apr06/cover.php "The Growing Cult of Paul Auster '69"] ''[[Columbia College Today]]'', March/April 2006</ref>]]
-'''Paul Auster''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1969|69]] [[MA]] '[[1970|70]] is a renowned novelist, translator, editor, script writer and film director, best known for ''The New York Trilogy'' and ''The Brooklyn Follies''.
+'''Paul Auster''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1969|69]] [[MA]] '[[1970|70]] was a renowned novelist, translator, editor, script writer and film director, best known for ''The New York Trilogy'' and ''The Brooklyn Follies''.
 ==College days==

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 ==Trivia==
-Auster has always married within the Columbia family - his first wife, [[Lydia Davis]], is a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] Class of [[1970]] alumna, and his second, [[Siri Hustvedt]], earned her [[MA]] and [[PhD]] in English at the university.
+*Auster has always married within the Columbia family - his first wife, [[Lydia Davis]], is a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] Class of [[1970]] alumna, and his second, [[Siri Hustvedt]], earned her [[MA]] and [[PhD]] in English at the university.
-One of his stories, ''Moon Palace'', takes its name from an old [[Morningside Heights]] Chinese restaurant.
+*One of his early stories, ''Moon Palace'', takes its name from an old [[Morningside Heights]] Chinese restaurant.
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 ==Trivia==
-Auster has always married within the Columbia family - his first wife, [[Lydia Davis]], was a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] Class of [[1970]] alumna, and his second, [[Siri Hustvedt]], earned her [[MA]] and [[PhD]] in English at the university.
+Auster has always married within the Columbia family - his first wife, [[Lydia Davis]], is a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] Class of [[1970]] alumna, and his second, [[Siri Hustvedt]], earned her [[MA]] and [[PhD]] in English at the university.
 One of his stories, ''Moon Palace'', takes its name from an old [[Morningside Heights]] Chinese restaurant.

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 ==Trivia==
-Auster has always married within the Columbia family - his first wife was a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] Class of [[1970]] alumna, and his second earned her [[MA]] and [[PhD]] in English at the university.
+Auster has always married within the Columbia family - his first wife, [[Lydia Davis]], was a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] Class of [[1970]] alumna, and his second, [[Siri Hustvedt]], earned her [[MA]] and [[PhD]] in English at the university.
 One of his stories, ''Moon Palace'', takes its name from an old [[Morningside Heights]] Chinese restaurant.
 ==External links==

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 ==Trivia==
-Auster has always married within the Columbia family - his first wife was a [[Barnard]] Class of 1970 alumna, and his second earned her [[MA]] and [[PhD]] in English at the university.
+Auster has always married within the Columbia family - his first wife was a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] Class of [[1970]] alumna, and his second earned her [[MA]] and [[PhD]] in English at the university.
 One of his stories, ''Moon Palace'', takes its name from an old [[Morningside Heights]] Chinese restaurant.

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-[[Image:Auster.jpg|thumb|Auster on the cover of ''[[CCT]]'']]
+[[Image:Auster.jpg|thumb|Auster on the cover of ''[[Columbia College Today]]'' <ref> [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/mar_apr06/cover.php "The Growing Cult of Paul Auster '69"] ''[[Columbia College Today]]'', March/April 2006</ref>]]
 '''Paul Auster''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1969|69]] [[MA]] '[[1970|70]] is a renowned novelist, translator, editor, script writer and film director, best known for ''The New York Trilogy'' and ''The Brooklyn Follies''.
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 Auster said of his undergraduate years that they "were not about making plans, not about preparing for my financial future. They were about books, the war in Vietnam, the struggle to figure out how to do the thing I was proposing to do," i.e., become a writer. The books he read during his first two years allowed his brain to "catch fire". Auster then went abroad to [[Paris]], where a fight with the study abroad director caused him to momentarily drop out of college. As soon as he returned to New York, however, he dropped back in.
-Despite being a rather quiet, bookish student who preferred little more than a drink at the old [[West End]], Auster somewhat passively participated in the [[1968 protests]], hanging out in [[Mathematics Hall]] during the occupation and getting beaten and arrested by the [[NYPD]]. Later, he described himself as "crazy" during the period and found the protests to have been somewhat misdirected.
+Despite being a rather quiet, bookish student who preferred little more than a drink at the old [[West End]], Auster somewhat passively participated in the [[1968 protests]], hanging out in [[Mathematics Hall]] during the occupation and getting beaten and arrested by the [[NYPD]]. Later, he described himself as "crazy" during the period and found the protests to have been somewhat misdirected.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/opinion/23auster.html?ex=1366689600&en=728aed88b098485e&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink "The Accidental Rebel"] ''The New York Times'', April 23, 2008</ref>
 ==Post-college involvement with Columbia==
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 ==External links==
-* [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/mar_apr06/cover.php "The Growing Cult of Paul Auster '69"] (''[[Columbia College Today]]'')
+<references />
 [[Category:Columbia College alumni|Auster]]
 [[Category:Class of 1969|Auster]]
 [[Category:GSAS alumni|Auster]]

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 '''Paul Auster''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1969|69]] [[MA]] '[[1970|70]] is a renowned novelist, translator, editor, script writer and film director, best known for ''The New York Trilogy''.
 Despite being a rather quiet, bookish student who preferred little more than a drink at the old [[West End]], Auster somewhat passively participated in the [[1968 protests]], hanging out in [[Mathematics Hall]] during the occupation and getting beaten and arrested by the [[NYPD]]. Later, he described himself as "crazy" during the period and found the protests to have been somewhat misdirected.
 After graduating, he spent a year in [[GSAS]] studying English. Much later, he was a one-semester writing professor at the [[School of the Arts]], and said that his return to campus made him realize that he had been "much unhappier" as an undergrad than he had realized. In other words, he's like most Columbia alumni, only famous.
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