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 Best American Short Stories 2003, Best American Short Stories 2008 and Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 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.

18 August 1974

Born on the same birth day (18 August): Elayne Boosler • Elizabeth Beisel • Franz Joseph I of Austria • G-Dragon • Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg • Hifikepunye Pohamba • Katherine Victor • Meriwether Lewis • Nick Fuentes • Robert Horton (businessman)

Born in the same month (August 1974): Carsten Jancker • Ever Carradine • Hadiqa Kiani • Javier Otxoa • Jenna Leigh Green • Kily González • Kumi Tanioka • Niklas Sundin • Scott D'Amore • Scott MacRae • Shivnarine Chanderpaul • Stephen Fung