. "Man Walks Into a Room"@en . . . "Man Walks Into a Room, published in the United States by Doubleday on May 1, 2002, is the first novel by American writer Nicole Krauss.Set in 1957 and the present day, the novel, which is a meditation on memory and personal history, solitude and intimacy, tells the story of Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, who is found wandering in the Nevada desert with no memory of his previous life."@en .