Jonathan Safran Foer

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Biography

Born in Washington, D.C., Foer attended Georgetown Day School, and Princeton University where he studied philosophy and literature and was awarded the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Creative Writing Thesis Prizes. In 2000, he was awarded the Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Prize. He is the editor of the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell for which he also wrote the short story "If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe." At Princeton, he took a class with Joyce Carol Oates, who took an interest in him and helped launch him to broad fame.^[1] Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C. in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia. ... Georgetown Day School is an independent, K-12 school in Washington, DC. It is familiarly called GDS, or less frequently Georgetown Day; its high school is sometimes abbreviated GDHS. It was founded in 1945 as the first integrated school in the District. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and is the with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978 ([1]). She serves as associate editor for Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher...

He was awarded a Bronfman fellowship for study in Israel. The Bronfman family, made famous by Samuel Bronfman (1891-1971), made a fortune in the distilled alcoholic beverages business during the 20th century through his Seagram Company. ...

He has been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions, The New York Times and The New Yorker, and his short stories include "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" and "The Sixth Borough." "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" is also to be found in the collection of short stories edited by Dave Eggers, "The Burned Children of America" and in "The Unabridged Pocket Book of Lightening," produced as part of the Penguin 70's series, while "The Sixth Borough," in a slightly altered form, is incorporated into Foer's second novel, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." The Paris Review, which is actually based in New York, is a literary magazine started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry, and fiction. ... Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer and editor. ...

He traveled to Ukraine in 1999 to research his grandfather's life. Though he had not originally planned it, this trip resulted in his debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, which was published in 2002 by Houghton Mifflin. The book garnered him a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award. Everything Is Illuminated is a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer published in 2002. ... See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. ... Guardian First Book Award issued before 1999 as Guardian Fiction Prize or Guardian Fiction Award is awarded to new writing in fiction and non-fiction. ...

Everything is Illuminated was adapted to film by the director Liev Schreiber and features Elijah Wood in the lead role and came out on September 16, 2005. Everything is Illuminated is a 2005 adventure/comedy/drama film, directed by Liev Schreiber. ... Liev Schreiber Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American Tony Award-winning actor. ... Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor and music executive. ...

In his second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, published in 2005, Foer uses 9/11 as a backdrop in the story of 9-year-old Oskar Schell. Although this novel was not as well received by critics as the debut, it has sold briskly and been translated into several languages, and the film rights have been bought. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by New York writer Jonathan Safran Foer is a novel published in 2005, and is notable for being one of the first to deal with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. ... // Events February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation. ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...

A vegetarian since he was 10 years old, in 2006 Foer recorded the narration for "If this is Kosher..." [1], a harsh exposé of the kosher certification process that advocates vegetarianism and also includes Rabbi David Wolpe and Rabbi Irving Greenberg. The circled U indicates that this can of tuna is certified kosher by the Union of Orthodox Congregations. ... Vegetarianism is the practice of not consuming meat, with or without the use of other animal derivatives, such as dairy products or eggs. ... Rabbi David J. Wolpe (b. ...

Foer is also the younger brother of Franklin Foer, the editor of The New Republic, who recently wrote How Soccer Explains the World. His younger brother Joshua Foer is also a journalist, specializing in science writing. He and wife, Nicole Krauss, had their first child, Sasha, in February 2006. Franklin Foer is an American political journalist and the current editor of The New Republic. ... For other uses, see the disambiguation section. ... Joshua Foer is a freelance journalist living in Washington, DC, with a primary focus on science. ... Nicole Krauss is an American writer who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, and their dog, George. ...

Criticism

Foer is one of the more controversial novelists of the past decade, not for the content of his writing, but rather for the extremely polarized responses he elicits from readers. Upon the initial release of Illuminated, it received overwhelming acclaim, not only from major publications, but also from many well-known authors, including John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Isabel Allende, Russell Banks, and Dale Peck. Some of the reviews verged on the hyperbolic, particularly in The Times, which proclaimed that the book was "a work of genius," that Foer had "staked his claim for literary greatness," and that "after it, things will never be the same." John Updike John Hoyer Updike (born March 18, 1932) is an American writer born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, where he lived until he was 13. ... Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and is the with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978 ([1]). She serves as associate editor for Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher... Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: , Hindi: on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is a British-Indian essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... Isabel Allende Llona (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer, who is considered one of the most popular novelists in the world today. ... Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. ... Dale Peck (born 1967 on Long Island, New York) is an American novelist. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ...

Detractors of Foer find his work gimmicky and overly ambitious. Particularly bothersome to some readers is the virtual catalogue of modernist devices he employed in his first novel, including time shifts, dialect writing, fanciful mock-history, dramatic prose, poetic devices, and stream-of-consciousness, all of which strike some as insincere and pretentious. The most notorious of these critics is Harry Siegel of the New York Press, who bluntly subtitled an article on Foer, "Why the author of Everything is Illuminated is a fraud and a hack." The New York Press is one of many free alternative weekly competitor to the Village Voice in New York City. ...

More recent criticism has taken a more evenhanded view, acknowledging the breathless silliness of some of the writer's early acclaim, while appreciating his considerable talent. In a recent essay for the London Review of Books about Foer's growing body of work, Wyatt Mason said "Foer has shown both an unusual faith in the power of written communication and a true believer’s willingness to test its limits." The London Review of Books (or LRB) is a twice-monthly British literary magazine. ...

Works

Short stories

• "The Very Rigid Search" (eventually developed into Everything is Illuminated, in The New Yorker, June 18, 2001)
• "If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe" (found in A Convergence of Birds)
• "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" (in The New Yorker, June 10, 2002)
• "The Sixth Borough"
• "Cravings"

Novels

• Everything is Illuminated (2002)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

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Other

• A Convergence of Birds (2001), an anthology of poetry and fiction which Foer edited
• The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (2005), contains "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" and an excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• "A Beginner's Guide to Hanukkah," a December 22, 2005 op-ed in The New York Times

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References

External links

• The Project Museum Official site of Jonathan Safran Foer
• Author interview in Guernicamag.com
• Who is Augustine? Exploratory site for Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Everything is Illuminated' (Novel)
• Heritage Tourists 'Everything is Illuminated' (Novel) Community Forum
• Official site of Everything is Illuminated (the movie)
• "Extremely Cloying and Incredibly False: Why the Author of Everything is Illuminated is a Fraud and a Hack"
• Interview at IdentityTheory.com
• Jonathan Safran Foer - "If This Is Kosher..." and interview (videos)
• The Bat Segundo Show #57 (podcast interview -- 2006)
• topodcastez Jonathan Safran Foer (podcast interview, topolivres.com)
• Jonathan Safran Foer 'Bookweb' on literary website The Ledge, with suggestions for further reading.