Krauss, who grew up on Long Island,[REF][REF] was born in Manhattan, New York City[REF] to a British Jewish mother and an American Jewish father, an engineer and orthopedic surgeon[REF] who grew up partly in Israel [REF].
In 1996 Krauss was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and enrolled in a master's program at Oxford University[REF] where she wrote a thesis on the American artist Joseph Cornell.