Nicole Krauss
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"Nicole Krauss" is an American author best known for her three novels Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005) and Great House (novel)/Great House (2010). Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine/Harper's, Esquire magazine/Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in Best American Short Stories 2003 and Best American Short Stories 2008. Her novels have been translated into 35 languages. In 2010, she was selected as one of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" writers to watch. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

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[A bookish child, she used to read at the dinner table, something that was not discouraged. She was a good student, got into Stanford University, where she met Joseph Brodsky.] He did the best thing a poet could ever do, ... He gave me a reading list.

George! ... Actually, I sort of like it when she does that.