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Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss, American novelist and critic

Born
August 18, 1974
Age in 2026
52
Zodiac sign
Leo
Birth year
1974

About Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2008 and The Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022. Krauss, who started writing when she was a teenager, wrote and published mainly poetry until she began her first novel in 2001. In 1996 Krauss was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and enrolled in a master's program at Somerville College, Oxford, where she wrote a thesis on the American artist Joseph Cornell.

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Nicole Krauss timeline

  1. In 1996 Krauss was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and enrolled in a master's program at Somerville College, Oxford, where she wrote a thesis on the American artist Joseph Cornell.
  2. Krauss, who started writing when she was a teenager, wrote and published mainly poetry until she began her first novel in 2001.
  3. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2008 and The Best American Short Stories 2019.
  4. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House.
  5. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.

The world when Nicole Krauss was born

Nicole Krauss was born in 1974. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1974

  • #1 song"The Way We Were" – Barbra Streisand
  • Top movieThe Godfather Part II
  • Top TV showAll in the Family
  • Best-selling bookJaws – Peter Benchley

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentHank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's all-time home run record (715)
  • Top headlinePresident Nixon resigns from office
  • Technology milestoneUniversal Product Code (UPC barcode) scanned for the first time
  • Defining fadStreaking
  • Notable inventionPost-it Note bookmark prototype
  • World population4.01 billion

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderRichard Nixon / Gerald Ford
  • Sports championOakland Athletics (World Series)
  • Also wonBoston Celtics (NBA)
  • U.S. population213.9M

1974 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Nicole Krauss's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19742026
Gas$0.53$3.45/gal
Average home$25,200$435,000
Average income$14,200$67,500
Minimum wage$2.00$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket$1.87$11.95
Postage stamp$0.10$0.73
Population213.9M341 million

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