Nicole Krauss

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Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss (born 1974) is an American writer who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and their son, Sasha.

Krauss' first novel Man Walks Into a Room was named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. Her most recent novel The History of Love was released in early 2005. The History of Love was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2006. Krauss' fiction has also appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories.

1 Biography
2 The History of Love
3 Works
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Nicole Krauss was raised on Long Island where she felt she had "the last American childhood." As a child, she was very creative, coming up with games such as "Office" where she pretended to be a travel agent and set up vacations for tourists. In her twenties, she wrote poetry, which she said "felt like the great goal of the language." After she completed a thesis at Oxford on Joseph Cornell, she abruptly quit poetry, calling it "an impossible quest for poetic precision." [1] Nicole Krauss graduated from Stanford, and went on to receive degrees from Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute in London. She has been a finalist for the Yale Younger Poet's Prize, and her poetry has appeared in publications such as the Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Doubletake. [2]

The History of Love

[edit] The History of Love

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The History of Love is a novel taking the form of a homage to things lost, as well as to unsolved mysteries. The novel within the novel, also named The History of Love is the basis for all these questions. Leo Gursky is an old locksmith who feels as though he is disappearing. He tries at all costs to draw attention to himself, but still feels he has a void in his life; eventually, he goes on a quest to find his long-lost son and the novel that he wrote as a young man, now published in Chile under a different man's name. Alma Singer is a young teenage girl who is trying to keep her family together after the loss of her father. Named after the heroine of The History of Love, Alma tries to console her widowed mother (who has recently been requested to translate the novel from Spanish) as well as keep her younger brother from becoming a social pariah.

The book has recently been optioned, and is set to be directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who recently directed Children of Men and Harry Potter.