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Jonathan Safran Foer

(b.1977)
Husband of Nicole Krauss

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the bestseller Everything Is Illuminated, named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize. Foer was one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest." Foreign rights to his new novel have already been sold in ten countries. The film of Everything Is Illuminated, directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood, will be released in August 2005. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been optioned for film by Scott Rudin Productions in conjunction with Warner Brothers and Paramount Pictures. Foer lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Awards: PEN (2004) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
   Tree of Codes (2010)
   Here I Am (2016)

Collections

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . . (2005) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (2005)

Anthologies edited

Convergence of Birds (2001)
The Future Dictionary of America (2004) (with Dave Eggers, Eli Horowitz and Nicole Krauss)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Jonathan Safran Foer

Tales of Two Cities (2015)
The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York
edited by
John Freeman

Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter (2015)
In Praise of Brevity
edited by
Elizabeth Cooperman and David Shields

USA Noir (2013)
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Johnny Temple

More books

Awards

	2007 Granta Best of Young American Novelists
	2004 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize : Everything Is Illuminated

Award nominations

2007 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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