Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977 in Washington, D.C. At Princeton University, he earned the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Creative Writing Thesis Prizes.
While at Princeton, he undertook a project in which he solicited work from celebrated poets and writers based on Joseph Cornell's bird boxes. A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell is the result of that project and includes work by Diane Ackerman, Howard Norman, Dale Peck, Robert Pinsky, Rick Moody, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Foer's short work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. His debut novel, Everything is Illuminated (2002) won a National Jewish Book Award and was based on a trip Foer had taken to Eastern Europe to research his family.
His 2005 novel is entitled Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. It surrounds the events of September 11, 2001.
His 2005 novel is entitled Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. It surrounds the events of September 11, 2001.
Nationality:
American
