US author Paul Auster, best known for his celebrated “New York Trilogy” of mystery novels, has died of lung cancer at the age of 77. The New York Times reported that his friend and fellow author Jacki Lyden confirmed Auster’s death on Tuesday. Auster was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Newark, New Jersey in 1947 and dreamed of becoming a writer from an early age. He studied literature in New York and France and funded his writing career through teaching assignments and translation. After the failure of his first marriage, he made his breakthrough in the mid-1980s with the “New York Trilog…