Nicole Krauss an author.Krauss's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in several Best American Short Stories anthologies. Her first novel, "Man Walks into a Room," was published in 2002.Krause received her B.A. in English from Stanford University and her M.A. in Art History from Oxford University.