PAUL AUSTER is the bestselling author of Travels in the Scriptorium, Oracle Night, and Man in the Dark, among many other works. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project Anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller. His work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"A nearly flawless work . . . Auster will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Mr. Auster's elegant, finely calibrated Book of Illusions is a haunting feat of intellectual gamesmanship." --The New York Times

"This noirish, layered tale will keep you guessing to the very end." --Time Out New York

"An enthralling new summit in Paul Auster's art." --Jonathan Lethem