Nicole Krauss vs. Toni Morrison
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Nicole Krauss
1974 – present
Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2008 and The Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House.
"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
Toni Morrison
1931 – 2019
Toni Morrison was an American novelist, editor, and professor celebrated for her richly textured narratives about the African American experience; she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved. Morrison's major works include The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved.
"Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it."