Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author, best known for his two novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Foer's style is marked by his use of visual storytelling in non-traditional ways.
Foer was born in 1977 in Washington D.C., to Albert Foer and Esther Safran Foer. As an undergraduate at Princeton University in the mid-1990s, Foer won the Creative Writing Thesis Prize four years running. Joyce Carol Oates, noted author and Creative Writing professor at Princeton, encouraged Foer to pursue a professional writing career, and proved a great influence on his final thesis project, which became his first published novel, Everything is Illuminated.
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