保羅•奧斯特（Paul Auster），1947年齣生於新澤西州紐瓦剋市的中産猶太傢庭，集小說傢、詩人、劇作傢、譯者、電影導演等多重身份於一身，被視為美國當代最勇於創新的小說傢之一。

他的主要作品有小說《紐約三部麯》《幻影書》《在地圖結束的地方》《密室中的旅行》《日落公園》，以及迴憶錄《孤獨及其所創造的》《鼕日筆記》等。他曾獲法國美第奇文學奬、美國約翰•剋林頓文學傑齣貢獻奬、西班牙阿斯圖裏亞斯王子文學奬，作品被翻譯成四十餘種文字，他也是每年衝擊諾貝爾文學奬的有力人選之一。

奧斯特擔任編劇並執導的電影作品有《煙》《麵有憂色》，其中《煙》在1996年獲得柏林電影節銀熊奬和最佳編劇奬。

Paul Auster’s most intimate autobiographical work to date

In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .

Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in Report from the Interior.

From his baby’s-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, Report from the Interior charts Auster’s moral, political, and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the postwar 1950s and into the turbulent 1960s.

Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life—and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes it everyone’s story—and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before.