Nicole Krauss

Power authors Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss split

IAN MOHR

June 17, 2014 

Literary power couple Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have legally separated.

Foer, author of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” and Krauss, whose most recent novel was “Great House,” married in 2004 and drove aspiring Brooklyn writers to fits of jealously when they put their Park Slope home up for sale for $14.5 million last October.

But a rep confirmed that they “split amicably about a year ago.” Foer then bought a Boerum Hill brownstone eight months ago.

Krauss initially stayed in the six-bedroom, 7,670-square-foot townhouse, but has moved out and is living near her ex.

“[They] have chosen to live in close proximity in order to raise their children,” the rep added.

The Park Slope home didn’t sell but is being re-listed with a different broker.

The breakup was so quiet, the pair, once dubbed “the too-successful-to-stomach physical embodiment of literary Brooklyn” by New York magazine, was included in April on a Huffington Post list of “kickass literary power couples” with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Vladimir and Véra Nabokov.

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