Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977 in Washington, the son of Jewish lawyer Albert Foer and Esther Safran Foer. He is the author of the novels "Everything is Illuminated" (2002), which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" (2005). He is also the editor of "A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell" (2001), a tribute to the work of American avant-garde artist and sculptor Joseph Cornell (1903-1972). In 2007, he was included in Granta magazine's list of the best young American novelists. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.