# Long Live King Kobe: Following the Murder of Tyler Kobe Nichols - Hardcover

by **Paul Auster** (Author), **Spencer Ostrander** (Photographer), **Sherma Chambers** (Foreword by)

This book is an intimate portrait of grief, a chronicle that charts the devastation visited upon a large, multi-generational family in the wake of the senseless, random murder of twenty-one-year-old Tyler Kobe Nichols on December 23, 2020.

With the cooperation and full participation of the Nichols-Chambers family, photographer Spencer Ostrander was granted privileged access to the household. Over the course of the next several months, he conducted one-on-one interviews with each member of that household along with Tyler's closest friends and, in the natural light of those settings, compiled a large dossier of photographic portraits of each person involved in the story.

The result is an astonishing ensemble of pictures and words that pierces through the cold statistics we use to talk about the wave of street violence spreading across the country to focus on one person, one family, one lost life, and transform the numbers into vivid, aching human reality.

### Author Biography

Paul Auster is the author of _Burning Boy, 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace, Winter Journal, The invention of Solitude_ and the New York Trilogy among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Liturature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Etranger for _Leviathan_, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of _Smoke_, and The Premio Napoli for _Sunset Park_. He has also been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (_The Book of Illusions_), the Pen/Faulkner Award (_The Music of Chance_), and the Man Booker Prize (_4 3 2 1_). He is a member of the The American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 10.2 x 8.3 IN

**Publication Date:** May 10, 2022

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