Jonathan Safran Foer | |
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Born | Washington, D.C., U.S. | February 21, 1977
Nickname | JSF |
Occupation | Novelist |
Education | Princeton University (BA) Mount Sinai Medical Center |
Notable works | Everything Is Illuminated (2002) |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Parents | Esther Safran Foer (mother) |
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Jonathan Safran Foer (/fɔːr/;[1] born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019).[2] He teaches creative writing at New York University.[3]