Paul Auster

The Red Notebook is the first of a collection of stories in four parts written by American author Paul Auster. These include The Red Notebook, Why Write?, Accident Report and It Don't Mean a Thing. They are true stories gathered from Auster's life as well as the lives of his friends and acquaintances and they have all …

According to family legend, Ferguson's grandfather departed on foot from his native city of Minsk with one hundred rubles sewn into the lining of his jacket, traveled west to Hamburg through Warsaw and Berlin, and then booked passage on a ship called the Empress of China, which crossed the Atlantic in rough winter …