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American novelist

This article is about the American writer. For the Australian media personality, see John Safran.

Jonathan Safran Foer (;^[1] born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist.

He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019).^[2] He teaches creative writing at New York University.^[3]

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, who is now Senior Advisor at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.^[4][5] Safran Foer is the middle son of a Jewish family.

His older brother, Franklin, is a former editor of The New