From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). In 2009, he published a work of nonfiction entitled Eating Animals. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Safran Foer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.