Nicole Krauss is the author of the nov­els For­est Dark, Great House, The His­to­ry of Love, and Man Walks Into a Room. Her work has appeared in the New York­er, Harper’s, Esquire, and The Best Amer­i­can Short Sto­ries, and her books have been trans­lat­ed into more than thir­ty-five lan­guages. She is cur­rent­ly the inau­gur­al writer-in-res­i­dence at Colum­bia University’s Mind, Brain, and Behav­ior Insti­tute. She lives in Brook­lyn, New York.