Quick Look Through Jonathan Safran Foer's Biography

• American writer
• Born in Washington D.C.
• Jewish
• One of the most controversial and influential writers of the last decade, not for the content of his writing, but rather for its unconventional writing style. 
• Jonathan was a very sensitive child, and at the age of 8 was injured in a classroom chemical accident that resulted in "something like a nervous breakdown drawn out over about three years", during which "He wanted nothing, except to be outside his own skin."
• Graduated from Princeton in 1999 with a degree in Philosophy
• Wrote his first book Everything is Illuminated before graduating, which was on the list of best books of 2002
• Everything is Illuminated was published in 24 countries
• Won the "National Jewish Book" award and many other literary prices
• Before he became a bestselling author, he was a receptionist, math tutor, ghost writer, and a jewelry salesman
• Foer lives with his wife, writer Nicole Krauss, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York