'They're a place where you live'

 

“I think of novels as houses. Youlive in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as awriter.” – Nicole Krauss

 

Born in New York City on this datein 1974, Krauss is perhaps best known for her novels Man Walks Into aRoom and The History of Love, although her short fiction hasalso been widely published in everything from The New Yorker to BestAmerican Short Stories.   Hermost recent book is the short story collection How To Be A Man.

 

A writer since childhood, she said “Myfirst opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six,handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.”

Krauss “officially” started writing in her teens and won several undergraduate prizes for her poetry and the Dean'sAward for academic achievement while studying at Stanford.  She hadher first novel published in 2001 and now has 4 novels (2 adapted into film) that have been translated into 35 languages.

 

“What interests me in writing anovel,” she said, “is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories andbeginning to create some kind of web.”