America’s Men

Jonathan Safran Foer was included this year in Granta Magazine’s „Best of Young American Novelists” (97th issue). Born in Washington D.C., Foer attended Princeton University where he studied philosophy and literature. Nowadays he’s the editor of the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and a famous author. His novels, Everything is Illuminated, (adapted to film in 2005 by director Liev Schreiber), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and short stories If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe, The Six Borough, helped him launch to broad fame.

In his latest book, Etremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Foer uses 9/11 as a backdrop for the story of Oskar Schell, a child learning to deal with the death of his father in the World Trade Center. The novel was translated into several languages and Warner Brothers followed by Paramount purchased film’s rights. American novelist’s work has also been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. On the other side, in his personal life, Jonathan has a three years old marriage with novelist Nicole Krauss and a son, Sasha.