Jonathan Safran Foer

American · b. 1977

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist and essayist who emerged in his early twenties as one of the most prominent voices of a third-generation American Jewish literary tradition. His debut novel Everything is Illuminated (2002), inspired by a college trip to Ukraine to trace his grandfather's history, won the Guardian First Book Award and was adapted into a 2005 film. He followed it with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), a 9/11 novel, and Here I Am (2016). His non-fiction includes Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather (2019), both arguing for vegetarianism on ethical and ecological grounds. He teaches creative writing at NYU.

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