Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer 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). He teaches creative writing at New York University.
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- Born in
- Washington, D.C.
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityGeorgetown Day School
- Awards
- 🏆 Guardian First Book Award🏆 Berlin Prize🏆 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing🏆 Q137449821
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1977
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