Nicola Kraus (born August 17, 1974) is an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

Personal life

Kraus was born in

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, and graduated from the

Chapin School Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood in Manhattan. History Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" in 1901. The school origin ...

and then

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. She met

Emma McLaughlin Emma Lanier McLaughlin (born February 7, 1974 in Elmira, New York) is an American novelist. Biography McLaughlin graduated from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She met Nicola Kraus while both were attending New ...

while both were attending New York University, and working as nannies. She lived as a child at

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, whose residents she claims inspired some of the characters in her fiction. Kraus married David Wheir on June 14, 2008.

Published works (all with Emma McLaughlin)

* ''

The Nanny Diaries ''The Nanny Diaries'' is a 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, both of whom are former nanny, nannies. The book satirizes upper-class Manhattan society as seen through the eyes of their children's caregivers. Writing The writers were ...

(2002)'' * ''Citizen Girl (2004)'' * ''Dedication (2007)'' * ''The Real Real (2009)'' * ''Nanny Returns (2009)'' * ''Cinderella Gets a Brazilian'' (2011) * ''Over You'' (2012) * ''The First Affair: A Novel'' (2013) * ''How to be a Grown-Up: A Novel'' (2015)

External links

Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus homepage

Interview with Emma McLaughlin

Barnes & Noble Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kraus, Nicola 1974 births 21st-century American novelists American women novelists American chick lit writers Living people New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study alumni Writers from Manhattan 21st-century American women writers Chapin School (Manhattan) alumni People from the Upper East Side Novelists from New York (state)