don't at all match up to or much resemble Roth even at his most inane." In response to charges of historical inaccuracy in Everything is Illuminated, Safran Foer defended himself in The Guardian, writing, "Rather than aligning itself with either 'how things were' or 'how things could have been', the novel measures the difference between the two, and by so doing attempts to reflect a kind of experiential (rather than historical or journalistic) truth." Bibliography Fiction Everything Is Illuminated (2002) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005) Tree of Codes (2010) Here I Am (2016) Non-fiction The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (2005, essay, ) Eating Animals (2009) We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019) Recognition 2000 – Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Prize 2003 – New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award 2007 – included in Granta's Best of Young American Novelists 2. 2007 – Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin 2010 – included in The New Yorkers "20 Under 40" list 2013 – appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council 2016 – included in The Forward's Forward 50 list as one of the fifty most influential Jewish-Americans of the year See also List of vegetarians References External links Authortrek page on Safran Foer; includes numerous links to articles, interview and information. Who is Augustine? Exploratory site for Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Everything Is Illuminated' (Novel) Jonathan Safran Foer 'Bookweb' on literary website The Ledge, with suggestions for further reading. Author interview in Guernica Magazine (Guernicamag.com) "Something happened" – Guardian Unlimited article "Author Podcast Interview" – interview with Paula Shackleton BookBuffet.com "The Foer questions: Literary wunderkind turns 35" Jonathan Safran Foer: Novels can learn from poetry. Filmed at Louisiana Literature festival 2012. Video interview by Louisiana Channel. Jonathan Safran Foer: Die cutting a novel. Filmed at Louisiana Literature festival 2012. Video by Louisiana Channel. American people of Polish-Jewish descent American vegetarianism activists Living people Magic realism writers New York University faculty Writers from Brooklyn Princeton University alumni Writers from Washington, D.C. Yale University faculty 1977 births 21st-century American novelists Jewish American novelists Postmodern writers American male novelists American male short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Connecticut Foer family Georgetown Day School alumni Jewish vegetarianism