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Early Years
Jonathan Safran Foer was born on February 21, 1977 in Washington D.C. to his lawyer father, Albert Foer, and his businesswoman mother, Polish-born Esther Safran Foer. Jonathan is a middle-child, younger brother of Franklin Foer, the former editor of the politics and culture magazine The New Republic, and older brother of Joshua, a freelance journalist.
A colourful and yet sensitive child, Foer attended Georgetown Day School, where he was injured at the age of eight in a classroom chemical accident. The accident resulted in "something like a nervous breakdown drawn out over about three years," which left him wanting nothing but to be "outside his own skin."
University
Foer attended Princeton University in New Jersey, where he studied Philosophy. It was while at Princeton that Foer was able to take an introductory writing course under the tutelage of novelist Joyce Carol Oates. Oates noted Foer's talent at an early stage, informing him that he had "that most important of writerly qualities, energy." Of Oates, Foer la
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Jonathan Safran Foer Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Interview
In three separate interviews Jonathan Safran Foer discusses Eating Animals, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
In three separate interviews Jonathan Safran Foer discusses Eating Animals, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals, talks with Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic
Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals, is an eloquent exploration of something most sentient humans think about at some point in their lives: Just what exactly am I eating? Or more to the point, Just who exactly am I eating? Foer has written an excellent, serious, and earnest book, and I spoke to him about his conclusions recently. What follows is an edited version of our conversation. Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author, best known for his two novels, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Foer's style is marked by his use of visual storytelling in non-traditional ways. Foer was born in 1977 in Washington D.C., to Albert Foer and Esther Safran Foer. As an undergraduate at Princeton University in the mid-1990s, Foer won the Creative Writing Thesis Prize four years running. Joyce Carol Oates, noted author and Creative Writing professor at Princeton, encouraged Foer to pursue a professional writing career, and proved a great influence on his final thesis project, which became his first published novel, Everything is Illuminated. Foer graduated from Princeton University in 1999, with a BA in Philosophy. Before he found success as a novelist, Foer worked as an editor on the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, to which he contributed a short story. He also worked an assortment of odd jobs while publishing short stories in The Paris Review and Conjunct
It seems, from reading Eating Animals, that you want people to adopt vegetarianism, but you don't actually say, "I've presented you with evidence that makes it morally impossibl •
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