American · b. 1974
Nicole Krauss writes about loss, memory, and the weight of Jewish history. "The History of Love" (2005) interweaves a Holocaust survivor in New York with a teenage girl in search of a mysterious book. "Great House" (2010) was a National Book Award finalist—four stories connected by a writing desk. Krauss was married to Jonathan Safran Foer; their literary overlap was noted. Her prose is elegant; her structures are ambitious.