Jonathan Safran Foer is a graduate of Princeton University , where he was awarded the Senior Creative Writing Thesis Prize. His work has appeared inParis Review, theNew York Times, andTheNew Yorker. His first novel,Everything is Illuminated,garnered him a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, novelist Nicole Krauss, and their son.