Philippe Petit (b. 1949) is a French high-wire artist whose celebrated walk between the Twin Towers was the subject of the Academy-Award winning film Man on Wire . He is also the author of Why Knot? , To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers , and Creativity: The Perfect Crime . A critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and translator, Paul Auster lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of many novels, including 4321 , The New York Trilogy , and City of Glass . New Directions publishes his Red Notebook as well as his translations of Stephane Mallarme's A Tomb for Anatole and Philippe Petit's On the High Wire . A critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and translator, Paul Auster lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of many novels, including 4321 , The New York Trilogy , and City of Glass .

New Directions publishes his Red Notebook as well as his translations of Stephane Mallarme's A Tomb for Anatole and Philippe Petit's On the High Wire .