Nicole Krauss is the author of four novels, Forest Dark, Great House,The History of Love, and Man Walks Into a Room, which have been translated into 37 languages. Her first collection of short stories, To Be a Man, will be published on November 3. Nicole Krauss is the author of four novels, Forest Dark, Great House,The History of Love, and Man Walks Into a Room, which have been translated into 37 languages. Her first collection of short stories, To Be a Man, will be published on November 3.