The past marked by drugs and theft of Daniel, Paul Auster's eldest son

• USA Arrested the son of the writer Paul Auster after the death by overdose of his 10-month-old daughter

Not even the amazing imagination of

(75) would have been able to capture in black ink the worst of tragedies for a grandfather.

His son

, 44, has been arrested in New York accused of involuntary manslaughter for the death of his ten-month-old daughter

.

Although the little girl died on November 1, the autopsy has just revealed that she died of an overdose of heroin and fentanyl.

Her Instagram account is full of photos of the little girl and his wife.

Daniel Auster was born in 1977. He is the only child that the writer had with fellow writer

, whom he married in 1974 after living a long courtship in

.

When Daniel was eighteen months old, his parents separated.

As a result of the divorce, Paul decided to move to the exclusive area of ​​Park Slope in

and shortly after Lydia did the same so that her son could walk from one house to another.

Daniel's childhood was that of a normal boy who did not boast of having important parents.

The divorce did not affect him and he immediately accepted her father's new wife, the writer

(67), who shares the Princess of Asturias Award for Letters with her husband.

They both have a daughter,

(34), who is a singer-songwriter and actress.

The life of the first-born of the American writer has not been without problems with the law since as a teenager he began to have altercations with the police.

At 18, he was an unwitting witness to a murder in one of the New York nightclubs he used to frequent.

Nightclub promoter

murdered trafficker

and in exchange for his silence gave Auster $3,000.

When the trial came two years later, in 1998, Paul Auster pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property and served five years on probation.

Far from being the son that every father would like to have, Daniel began to lead a dissolute life once he came of age.

His problems with the law have been constant.

In 2008 and 2010 he was arrested for illegal drug possession and in 2009 he was charged with petty theft and possession of stolen property.

Ironies of life, when his father wrote the screenplay for 'Smoke' (1995), starring

, Daniel had a small role as a petty book thief.

The relationship between Paul and Daniel is practically non-existent due to Daniel's criminal past.

Every time the author of 'El Palacio de la Luna' is asked about his son, he avoids the answers and the same thing happens with Suri.

Although not a word has come out of his mouth to describe Daniel, the truth is that enough features have emerged from his pen to narrate the vicissitudes of some of the characters in his novels.

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