Siri Hustvedt and Paul Aster Following the death of her husband, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt chronicled her first year without him into a heartbreaking book, Ghost Stories, published by Sceptre and out now Lead ImageSiri Hustvedt and Paul Aster Authors Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster were together for 43 years. It’s a fact Hustvedt found herself saying repeatedly in the early, disorienting days of grief following Auster’s death from lung cancer in 2024.