Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss is the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, Forest Dark, Great House, and Man Walks Into a Room. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories. She is currently the inaugural writer-in-residence at Columbia University’s Mind, Brain, and Behavior Institute. In To Be a Man (Harper), a collection of short fiction, Nicole Krauss explores what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman in a relationship and beyond. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from New York City to Tel Aviv, and from Switzerland to Japan and South America, To Be a Man illuminates with an unwavering light the forces driving human existence: sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery, growing older. Publishers Weekly, said “This triumphant first collection from Nicole Krauss crisscrosses the globe in 10 ambitious stories written over two decades that wrestle with sexuality, desire, and human connection…. This is a spectacular book.”