Jonathan Safran Foer

was born in Washington in 1977 and currently lives in New York. He made his literary debut at 25 with the bestseller Everything is illuminated, continuing his success with his second novel, Extremely loud and incredibly close (2005). In Italy his books are published by Guanda, whose catalogue includes the non-fiction work Eating Animals. His third novel, Here I am, will be released at the end of August.