Jonathan Safran Foer

Author, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals, Here I Am, and most recently, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast​. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah.

Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Safran Foer teaches creative writing at New York University.

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