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About Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer was a contemporary American novelist. Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). Read more on Wikipedia →

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