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, 2008, and 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 has been hailed by the New York Times as “one of America’s most important novelists and an international literary sensation," and by the Financial Times as “one of the great novelists working today.”

Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. In 2007, she was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010, she was chosen by The New Yorker for their “Twenty Under Forty” list. Her work has received numerous accolades, including the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.

In 2020, she was the first Writer-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, and in 2021, she received the Sami Rohr Inspiration Award for career achievement.