Daniel Kraus

Daniel Kraus is an American novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker whose fiction often blends horror, speculative elements, and literary experiment. His novel Angel Down (2025), a World War I narrative written as a single sentence, won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He is also the author of Whalefall and has collaborated with Guillermo del Toro on The Shape of Water and Trollhunters. Kraus lives in Chicago.