Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist.

Everything Is Illuminated (2004), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and his non-fiction book We Are the Weather: Saving the Earth Begins at Breakfast (2019).

At New York University, he teaches creative writing.

Early life and education

Safran Foer was born in Washington, D.C., as the son of Albert Foer, a lawyer and president of the American Antitrust Institute, and Esther Safran Foer, a child of Holocaust survivors born in Poland, is now Senior Advisor at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. Safran Foer, the middle son of a Jewish family, is the head of a Jewish family. Franklin, his elder brother, is a former editor of The New Republic, and Joshua, his younger brother, is the author of Atlas Obscura and Sefaria. Safran Foer, a "flamboyant" and sensitive child who was injured in a classroom chemical accident that resulted in "something like a nervous breakdown spread over three years," which "he wanted nothing more than to be outside his own skin."

In 1994, Safran Foer joined Georgetown Day School and traveled to Israel with other North American Jewish teenagers in a Bronfman youth fellowship. When he was a freshman at Princeton University, Joyce Carol Oates taught him that he had "the most essential of writerly skills, energy." Safran Foer later remembered that "she was the first person to ever make me believe I should write in any serious way." Since that time, my life had changed dramatically." Safran Foer obtained an A.B. After completing a 40-page senior thesis titled "Before Reading The Book of Anticedents: Intention, Literary Interpretation, and the Hypothesized Author," under Gideon Rosen's direction, he came to Princeton in 1999. Louis Safran, a Holocaust survivor who survived, served as the advisor to Safran Foer's creative writing senior thesis, an investigation of his maternal grandfather's life. Safran Foer's Senior Creative Writing Thesis Prize at Princeton was awarded for his thesis.

Safran Foer briefly attended the Mount Sinai School of Medicine before deciding not to pursue his writing career after graduating from Princeton.

Personal life

Safran Foer married writer Nicole Krauss in June 2004. They lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, and they had two children. Jonathan unsuccessfully sued Natalie Portman after the couple divorced in 2014. Michelle Williams, a film producer, dated actress Safran Foer from 2015 to 2017.

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Career

Safran Foer earned a degree in philosophy in 1999 and moved to Ukraine to expand his thesis. He edited The Anthology of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell's work in 2001, to which he contributed the short story "If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe." Everything Is Illuminated, his Princeton thesis, which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002, developed into a book. The book received him the National Jewish Book Award (2001) and a Guardian First Book Award (2002). In 2004, Safran Foer & Co. won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize with fellow writers Will Heinrich and Monique Truong. Liev Schreiber wrote and directed a film adaptation of the novel, which starred Elijah Wood.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Safran Foer's second book, was published in 2005. Safran Foer set 9/11 as a backdrop for 9-year-old Oskar Schell, who learns how to cope with his father's death in the World Trade Center. Visual writing was used in the novel to write stories. It follows several different but interrelated talelines, is peppered with photographs of doorknobs and other such oddities, and finally leads to a 14-page flip book. Safran Foer's use of these techniques resulted in both praise and chagrindy from critics. The novel was turned into a film by Warner Bros. and Paramount, directed by Stephen Daldry.

Safran Foer wrote the libretto for an opera called Seven Attempted Escapes From Silence, which premiered at the Berlin State Opera on September 14, 2005.

Safran Foer wrote for the first time as a visiting professor of fiction at Yale University in 2008. He teaches in New York University's graduate creative writing program as of 2021. In November 2010, Safran Foer published Tree of Codes, his third book. The New American Haggadah, edited by Safran Foer and translated by Nathan Englander, received mixed feedback in March 2012.

Safran Foer's third book, Eating Animals, was published in 2009. Eating Animals, a New York Times bestseller, offers a sociologically rich account of some of the factory farms' subsequent ramifications. It explores what humans can be so loving to our animals while simultaneously being indifferent to others, as well as learning what this inconsistency tells us about ourselves. The book's title, as well as the first and the last chapters, puts a strong emphasis on "storytelling." Storytelling is Safran Foer's way of understanding and coping with the fact that animals are eating, as well as the fact that our food choices reveal tales about who we are or "stories about us" and our values, as Safran Foer has said in his book.

Safran Foer signed a two-book contract with Little, Brown in May 2012. Escape From Children's Hospital, the author's book, was supposed to be published in 2014, but it is no longer on the publisher's schedule. He published the book Here I Am in September 2016.

Safran Foer participated in an on-stage conversation with Samin Nosrat about eating and climate change in 2019.

Safran Foer is a board member for Farm Forward, a non-profit group that implements innovative ways to promote conscientious food choices, reduce animal suffering, and advance sustainable agriculture.

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