 Born Jewish, Auster converted to Christianity as an adult and became a member of the Episcopal Church, a church he said he preferred "in the historical rather than the present tense", because the Church's ordination of openly gay men means "it has ceased being a Christian church".He died of pancreatic cancer in West Chester, Pennsylvania on March 29, 2013.Auster was the author of several works on immigration and multiculturalism, most notably "The Path to National Suicide", originally published by the American Immigration Control Foundation (AICF) in 1990.