乔纳森•萨福兰•弗尔，1977年出生于美国华盛顿。曾获得普林斯顿大学的高级创造性写作论文奖。他的短篇小说曾在《巴黎评论》和《关联杂志》上发表，并于2000年荣获西洋镜小说奖。他目前在纽约大学教授创造性写作课程，其作品版权已经输出到36个国家。

2002年 长篇小说《了了》获得全美犹太人图书奖和《卫报》处女作奖

2007年 入选Granta杂志美国最优秀青年作家

2007年 入选柏林美国学院院士

2010年 入选《纽约客》四十岁以下作家top20

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell.