Author

Books by Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist and author known for Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and We Are the Weather. He is a professor at New York University's creative writing program and has been recognized with the Guardian First Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Eating Animals, published in 2009, is his first nonfiction work. Foer does not describe himself primarily as a food activist; the book grew out of his becoming a parent and wanting to understand what he was responsible for feeding his children.