AJ Jacobs

Memoirist

AJ Jacobs was born in New York City, New York, United States on March 20th, 1968 and is the Memoirist. At the age of 56, AJ Jacobs biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
March 20, 1968
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, United States
Age
56 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Profession
Journalist, Writer
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Julie Schoenberg
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AJ Jacobs Life

Arnold Stephen "A."

"J" is a letter that means "J" in the United States. Jacobs Jr. (born March 20, 1968) is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments.

He has been an editor at large for Esquire and has worked with Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly.

Early life

Jacobs was born in New York City to secular Jewish parents Arnold Jacobs Sr., a lawyer, and Ellen Kheel. Beryl Jacobs, Beryl Jacobs, is his only sister. He was educated at The Dalton School and Brown University.

Personal life

Jacobs is married to Julie Schoenberg and has three children: Jasper Kheel-Lime Jacobs (born March 11, 2004) and twins Zane and Lucas Jacobs (born August 24, 2006).

Jacobs was a first cousin, albeit removed, of the legal scholar Cass Sunstein.

Jacobs is a member of Giving What We Can, and he pledges 10% of his life's earnings to charity. He gives support to the Against Malaria Foundation and other relevant altruism groups.

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AJ Jacobs Career

Career

Jacobs has said that he sees his life as a series of experiments in which he immerses himself in a project or lifestyle, whether positive or bad, and then writes about what he learned. Immersion journalism, also known as "stunt journalism," is a common expression.

Jacobs read all 32 volumes of Encyclopdia Britannica, which he discussed in his book "One Man's Humble Quest to Become the World's Smartest Person" (2004). He also chronicles his personal life in the book, as well as several ventures such as joining Mensa. The book appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list for eight weeks. A series of segments on NPR's Weekend Edition highlighted the surprising facts Jacobs learned in each letter. Jacobs also wrote a column for a mental floss magazine describing the highlights of each volume's contents. In The New York Times, Time magazine, and USA Today, the book has received glowing reviews. In the New York Times Book Review, Joe Queenan panned it. The book was described as "corny, juvenile, smug, thirsty, interminable" and "interminable" by Queenan, who also described Jacobs as "a prime example of that curiously modern invention: the pedigreed simpleton." Jacobs wrote a short story titled "I Am Not a Jackass" four months later.

In 2005, Jacobs outsourced his life to India, so that personal assistants could do everything for him, from answering his e-mails, reading his children's good-night stories, and arguing with his wife. In an Esquire article titled "My Outsourced Life" (2004), Jacobs wrote about it. Timothy Ferriss' article was excerpted from The 4-Hour Workweek. On a Moth storytelling podcast, Jacobs also discussed his outsourcing experiences.

Jacobs wrote "I Think You're Fat" (2004), a memoir of complete truth-telling advocated by Virginia therapist Brad Blanton, whom Jacobs interviewed for the story.

According to Jacobs' book "One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible" (2007), one man's effort to live for one year coincides with the prohibition of trimming his facial hair (which he continued not to trim his facial hair at all). Jacobs gave a TED talk about what he learned about the book during the trial and ranked it on the New York Times bestseller list for 11 weeks. CBS Television produced a television series based on the book in May 2017. It was originally branded By the Book for television, but it was later changed to Living Biblically.

My Life as an Experiment (1996) is a collection of first person essays about his interactions with various theories of human behavior, including thanking everyone for the morning cup of coffee.

Jacobs is the author of The Two Kings: Elvis and Jesus (1994), an irreverent comedic comparison of Elvis Presley and Jesus; and America Off-Line (1996). He also contributes to mental health, a trivia newspaper.

Bodily Perfection's Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest (2012) discusses how humans can improve their bodies' health, from diet to exercise. He wrote the book while walking a treadmill. "How Well Killed Me" by Jacobs was a TED talk about this health quest.

Jacobs wrote the "Extreme Health" column for Esquire magazine from 2011 to 2012, covering topics including high-intensity interval training and quantified self. Since 2012, he has been writing the "Modern Problems" advice column for mental floss magazine, "Modern Problems." The column compares modern day life to past horrors.

Jacobs writes "My Huddled Masses," a weekly advice column for Esquire.com as of May 2013. The column is distributed to Jacobs' 100,000 Facebook followers, who offer etiquette and love tips. He also writes "Obituaries" for Esquire, which consists of satirical death notices for cultural trends, such as American hegemony.

Jacobs was working on a project called the Global Family Reunion, where he hopes to link as many people as possible to the global family tree at Geni.com and WikiTree as of 2015. On June 6, 2015 at the New York Hall of Science, he hosted the Global Family Reunion, projected to be the largest family reunion in history.

Jacobs was the host of Twice Removed, a genealogy podcast that emphasized genealogy, on December 5, 2016. Gimlet revealed in June that the podcast would not be revived for a second season.

He's currently working on a book that reframes global problems as puzzles in 2020.

The New York Times published a story by Jacobs about a 1988 kayaking trip in which he and his sister were lost overnight in Glacier Bay National Park's waterways. They were eventually saved by an unknown group of campers on Kidney Island and a search seaplane rented by their father.

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