Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem Join Faculty
Jonathan Safran Foer—who is also a Collegiate Professor at NYU—will be our 2009-10 Lillian Vernon Distinguished-Writer-in-Residence. Jonathan Lethem will be joining us in spring 2010 as Distinguished Fiction-Writer-in-Residence.
 | Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the bestselling novels Everything Is Illuminated, named
Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous
awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish
Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Foer was one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest." He lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
 | Jonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn,
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author
of two short story collections, Men and Cartoons and The Wall of the
Sky, Wall of the Eye, and a collection of autobiographical essays, The
Disappointment Artist. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, McSweeny's, Tin House and The New York Times among others. He was recently granted a MacArthur Genius Award. |
