“I
think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period,
both as a reader and as a writer.” – Nicole Krauss
Born on this date in
1974, Krauss is an American author best known for her novels Man Walks Into a
Room, The History of Love (also made into a 2016 movie), and Great
House, all multiple award winners translated into 35 languages. Her short fiction has been published in The
New Yorker and Harper's and been collected in Best
American Short Stories – both the
2003 and 2008 editions.
Her much anticipated next novel, Forest
Dark, is scheduled for publication in
September. “To
me,” she noted, “… the singular privilege of reading literature (is) we are
allowed to step into another's life.” 
A graduate of Stanford, where she studied English, Krauss also earned a scholarship to Oxford, honing her writing skills while earning a master’s in art history.
A graduate of Stanford, where she studied English, Krauss also earned a scholarship to Oxford, honing her writing skills while earning a master’s in art history.
Being “clear” in your writing – making
things understandable – is the best advice she gives to new writers. “If the book is a mystery to its author as
she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she
reads it.”
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