Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of three novels: Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Here I Am. He also wrote Eating Animals, a widely acclaimed and influential investigation into the ethics of animal agriculture. His fiction has been published in the Paris Review and the New Yorker among many others, and his work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages. Jonathan Safran Foer lives in Brooklyn and teaches Creative Writing at New York University.