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  • Bibliography:
    4 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1999
  • Latest Book:
    March 2017
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About the Author

Paul La Farge died from cancer in January 2023, at the age of 52.

Book List in Order: 4 titles



  • Frank, a young artist, arrives in the city hoping to unravel the mystery of his parents' disappearance. He begins working as a washer of robes at a hotel for itinerant judges. There he meets and falls in love with Prudence, a forensic photographer...



  • Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who transformed Paris from a filthy and haphazard medieval city into the jewel of Europe, is rumored on his deathbed to have wished all his work undone. Why? The answer lies in the story of Madeleine, a foundling from...



  • A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In September 2000, a young programmer come...



  • From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie,...




Award-Winning Books by Paul LaFarge

Haussmann, or the Distinction
2005 Bard Fiction Prize -- Emerging Writer


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul LaFarge has published 4 books.

Paul LaFarge does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Night Ocean, was published in March 2017.

The first book by Paul LaFarge, The Artist of the Missing, was published in June 1999.

No. Paul LaFarge does not write books in series.