Jonathan Safran Foer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jonathan Safran Foer
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 21, 1977(1977-02-21)
Age	47
Birthplace	Washington
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington, D.C.
Horoscope	Aquarius

Jonathan Safran Foer Biography

Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 21, 1977 in Washington, Washington, D.C., United States. A famous American novelist, he’s best recognized for his books Everything Is Illuminated in addition to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Near. Both of his novels were made into films.

Its work Everything is Illuminated was made into a movie starring His novel Everything is Illuminated was made into a film starring Elijah Wood..

Foer attended Georgetown Day School and in 1994 traveled to Israel with other North American Jewish teenagers in a program sponsored by Bronfman youth fellowships. In 1995, while a freshman at Princeton University, he took an introductory writing course with author Joyce Carol Oates, who took an interest in his writing, telling him that he had “that most important of writerly qualities, energy.” Foer later recalled that “she was the first person to ever make me think I should try to write in any sort of serious way. And my life really changed after that.” Oates served as the advisor to Foer’s senior thesis, an examination of the life of his maternal grandfather, the Holocaust survivor Louis Safran. For his thesis, Foer received Princeton’s Senior Creative Writing Thesis Prize.

Foer graduated from Princeton in 1999 with a degree in philosophy, and traveled to Ukraine to expand his thesis. In 2001, he edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, to which he contributed the short story, “If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe”. His Princeton thesis grew into a novel, Everything Is Illuminated, which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002. The book earned him a National Jewish Book Award (2001) and a Guardian First Book Award (2002). Foer shared the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize with fellow authors Will Heinrich and Monique Truong in 2004. In 2005, Liev Schreiber wrote and directed a film adaptation of the novel, which starred Elijah Wood.

He got married to the writer Nicole Krauss in 2004; the couple later had two kids.

Jonathan Safran Foer Net Worth

Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jonathan Safran Foer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was briefly a student at his time at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine before leaving to focus on writing.

He was listed in The New Yorker magazine’s “20 Under 40” list in the year 2010.

Jonathan Safran Foer (/f ʊər / ; 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). He teaches creative writing at New York University.

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In spring 2008, Foer taught writing for the first time as a visiting professor of fiction at Yale University. He is currently a writer-in-residence in the graduate creative writing program at New York University. Foer published his third novel, Tree of Codes, in November 2010. In March 2012, The New American Haggadah, edited by him and translated by Nathan Englander, was released to mixed reviews.

Facts & Trivia

Jonathan Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jonathan Safran Foer celebrates birthday on February 21 of every year.

In May 2012, Foer signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown. His novel, Escape From Children’s Hospital, was due for publication in 2014, but is no longer on the publisher’s schedule. In September 2016, he released the novel Here I Am.

Top Facts about Jonathan Safran Foer

1. Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
2. He was born on February 21, 1977 in Washington D.C.
3. His debut novel, “Everything Is Illuminated,” was published in 2002.
4. Foer has won numerous awards for his writing, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award.
5. He is also a vegetarian and has written extensively about food and animal rights.
6. Foer’s most recent book, “We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast,” explores the impact of meat consumption on climate change.
7. In addition to his writing career, Foer teaches creative writing at New York University.
8. He is married to fellow author Nicole Krauss and they have two children together.
9. Foer’s work often deals with themes of family, identity, memory, and trauma.
10. His books have been translated into over thirty languages and adapted into films and plays.

Is Jonathan Safran Foer vegan?

Jonathan Safran Foer is a vegetarian author He won various international awards for his first novel, and his second novel “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” was also highly acclaimed. “Eating Animals,” which just came out Nov. 2, 2009, is his 3rd book and 1st non-fiction work.

Is Everything Is Illuminated a true story?

Everything is Illuminated is a novel written by Jonathan Safran Foer in 2002. It is unique in its structure as a fictionalized work which alternates between two autobiographical stories, centered on a the fictionalized history of a real Jewish shtetl which was located in the western part of the Ukraine.

How old is Jonathan Safran Foer?

45 years (February 21, 1977)

Is Jonathan Safran Foer writing a new book?

New Novel From Jonathan Safran Foer Coming in September The work, “Here I Am,” is part of a three-book deal that includes another novel and a work of nonfiction.

Should we stop eating meat to save the planet?

Reducing meat consumption has many benefits; it is the single most significant action you can take to help our environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and soil degradation. Reduction of meat consumption will also save an enormous amount of land, water use and will increase biodiversity.