Creepy and surreal, these three stories will twist your brain around so the world you know no longer makes sense. Paul Auster has an uncanny ability to create a parallel universe that seems identical to ours on the surface, but quickly shows itself to be strange and unpredictable. City of Glass, Ghosts, the Locked Room draws you in and makes you feel safe, then pulls the rug out from underneath. The danger with this intense writing style is the very real sense of vertigo you may feel, but this is merely a testament to his talent as a writer.

Paul Auster was born on February 3, 1947, in Newark, New Jersey. In addition to his career as a writer, Auster has been a census taker, tutor, merchant seaman, little-league baseball coach, and a telephone operator. After graduating from Columbia in 1970, he started his writing career as a translator. He soon gained popularity for the detective novels that make up his New York Trilogy. Auster's novel, "The Invention of Solitude," is a memoir exploring the relationship he had with his father. Auster has gradually shifted from mystery writing to science fiction. His other works include "Leviathan" and "Moon Palace." In addition to his novels, Auster has written screenplays and directed several films. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a French Prix Medicis for Foreign Literature.