Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the bestselling novels Everything Is Illuminated, named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Foer was one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest." He lives in Brooklyn, New York.