Jonathan Safran Foer: Jonathan Safran Foer. Writer: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. 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...
