Jonathan Safran Foer
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About
An American fiction writer, he is best known for Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Both of these novels were adapted into films.
Before Fame
He briefly attended the Mount Sinai School of Medicine before dropping out to focus on writing.
Trivia
He was included on The New Yorker magazine's "20 Under 40" list in 2010.
Family Life
He married writer Nicole Krauss in 2004; they subsequently became parents to two children.
Associated With
His novel Everything is Illuminated was made into a film starring Elijah Wood.
