Nicole Krauss

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nicole Krauss
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Aug 18, 1974(1974-08-18)
Age	50
Birthplace	Manhattan
Country	United States
Horoscope	Leo

Nicole Krauss Biography

Nicole Krauss is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on August 18, 1974 in Manhattan, United States. Nicole Krauss (born August 18 1974) is an American writer who is popular for her books Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), that have been translated into over 35 languages. Her work has appeared within The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and Granta’s Best American Novelists Under 40 and was included by the Best American Short Stories 2003, Best American Short Stories 2008 as well as Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2010, she was chosen by The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” writers to follow. The year 2011 was the one in which Nicole Krauss won an award from the Anisfield Wolf Book Awards for her novel Great House.

in 2002 Doubleday released Krauss’s highly acclaimed debut novel Man is Walking Into a Room. A meditation on memory , personal stories, solitude as well as intimacy. The book received praise from Susan Sontag and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The rights to film the novel were leased to Richard Gere.

Krauss’s second novel, The History of Love, was first published as an excerpt in The New Yorker in 2004, under the title The Last Words on Earth. The novel, published in 2005 in the United States by W. W. Norton, weaves together the stories of Leo Gursky, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor from Slonim, the young Alma Singer who is coping with the death of her father, and the story of a lost manuscript also called The History of Love. The book was a 2006 finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for fiction. A film of the book, directed by Radu Mihăileanu, was released in 2016.

Krauss, who grew up on Long Island, New York, was born in Manhattan, New York City to a British Jewish mother and an American Jewish father, an engineer and orthopedic surgeon who grew up partly in Israel. Krauss’s maternal grandparents were born in Germany and Ukraine and later immigrated to London. Her paternal grandparents were born in Hungary and Slonim, Belarus, met in Israel, and later immigrated to New York. Many of these places are central to Krauss’s 2005 novel, The History of Love, and the book is dedicated to her grandparents.

Krauss began writing as an teen she wrote and published mostly poems until she wrote her first novel in 2001.

Nicole Krauss Net Worth

Nicole Krauss is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nicole Krauss 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Krauss began her studies at Stanford University in 1992, in the fall of 1992, she came across Joseph Brodsky who worked closely with her on her poetry for the following three years. Brodsky also introduced her writers like Italo Calvino, and Zbigniew Herbert. In 1999, just three years after Brodsky passed away, Krauss produced a documentary about his work for BBC Radio 3. She travelled to St. Petersburg where she was within her “room and a half” where he grew up. popularized by her essay on the subject. Krauss studied English and graduated with distinction with several awards for undergraduates for her writing as and her the Dean’s Award for academic achievement. She also co- curated an event for readings together with Fiona Maazel at the Russian Samovar Restaurant located in New York City co-founded by Roman Kaplan, Brodsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

In 1996, Krauss was awarded the Marshall Scholarship and enrolled in the master’s course in Somerville College, Oxford where she wrote her thesis on The American artist Joseph Cornell. In the second year of her scholarship, she was a student at the Courtauld Institute in London, which she graduated with an art history master’s degree and specialized in 17th century Dutch art, and also wrote her thesis on Rembrandt.

Krauss lives in Brooklyn, New York. In June 2004, she married novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, and they had two children together, Sasha and Cy. Krauss and Foer divorced in 2014.

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Who is Nicole Krauss Dating?

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“In a sense, the self is more or less an invention from beginning to end. What is more unreal, what is more a creation than the self? Why do we have such a heavy investment in knowing what is true and what isn’t true about people’s lives? Why is it even valid to make a distinction between autobiography, auto- fiction and fiction itself? What fiction doesn’t contain a deep reflection of the author’s perspective and memory and sense of the world?”

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Nicole Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Nicole Krauss celebrates birthday on August 18 of every year.

Top Facts about Nicole Krauss

1. Nicole Krauss is an American novelist born in 1974.
2. She has written four novels, including “The History of Love.”
3. Her books have been translated into over 35 languages.
4. Krauss has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.
5. She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007.
6. Krauss is also a poet and essayist.
7. She holds degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University.
8. Krauss is married to fellow author Jonathan Safran Foer.
9. Her work often explores themes of memory, identity, and loss.
10. Krauss has been praised for her lyrical prose and intricate storytelling techniques.

How old is Nicole Krauss?

47 years (August 18, 1974)

Who wrote History of Love?

Nicole Krauss

Is Nicole Krauss married?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Why did Jonathan Safran Foer leave his wife?

Rumours abounded some years back acclaimed author, and her longtime friend, Jonathan Safran Foer left his wife Nicole Krauss for Portman after the two developed a friendship, mostly based on exchanging emails.

What is the History of Love by Nicole Krauss about?

A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother’s loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive.