Jonathan Safran Foer
- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
His mother, Esther Safran Foer, a child of Holocaust survivors, is the
Director & CEO of the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC.
His father, Albert Foer, is a lawyer and President of the American
Antitrust Institute. After graduating from Princeton, Foer attended
briefly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine before dropping out to
pursue his writing career. Joyce Carol Oates was his mentor.