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Joshua Foer

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Personal life

Foer is the younger brother of New Republic editor Franklin Foer and novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. He is the son of Esther Foer, president of a public relations firm, and Albert Foer, a think-tank president. He was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Georgetown Day School. He then went on to graduate from Yale University, where he lived in Silliman College, in 2004.

Foer is married to Dinah Herlands, a medical student at Yale, whom he met while an undergraduate at Yale.

Career

Foer sold his first book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, to Penguin for publication in March 2011. He received a $1.2 million advance for the concept when he was just 22 plus a movie option.

In 2006, Foer won the ...more

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Year-End Lists

Newspapers and magazines have begun releasing their "Best of 2011″ lists, and Moonwalking with Einstein has already appeared on several of them:

Amazon.com Top 20 Best Books of 2011

Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

O Magazine's Top 5 Nonfiction books of 2011

Discover Magazine's Best Science books of 2011

Amazon.ca Top 5 Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

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Joshua Foer’s books

Average rating: 3.91 · 102,444 ratings · 8,109 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating — 93,995 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author), Dylan Thuras, Ella Morton (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 8,429 ratings — published 2016 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cabinet 32: Fire by Sina Najafi (Editor), D. Graham Burnett, Thomas Van Leeuwen 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Explorer's Library: Books That Inspire Wonder (Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura 2-Book Set) by Atlas Obscura, Dylan Thuras, Cecily Wong (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	America Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the Hidden Wonders of the United States by Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author), Dylan Thuras, Atlas Obscura 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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