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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