Joshua Foer

Joshua Foer is a freelance journalist living in New York City, with a primary focus on science. In November 2006, Foer sold his first book, "Moonwalking with Einstein," for a reported $1.2 million to Penguin for publication in 2009. [http://www.nybusiness.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200661031005] According to "Variety", Paramount Pictures bought the rights to adapt the book for the screen. [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117953651.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562]

Foer's work has appeared in "The New York Times", ^{[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/opinion/14foer.html?ex=1297573200&en=64bad474e17f3713&ei=5088& 1]} "The Washington Post", ^{[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62795-2004Oct25.html]} "Slate", ^{[http://www.slate.com/id/2114925/]} and "The Nation". ^{[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050516/foer]} In 2007, the quarterly art & culture journal " Cabinet" began publishing Foer's column "A Minor History Of." The column "examines an overlooked cultural phenomenon using a timeline." [cite journal
title =Columns
journal = Cabinet issue 26
pages = pg. 7]

Foer is the younger brother of New Republic editor Franklin Foer and novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. He was born in Washington, DC and graduated from Silliman College, Yale University in 2004.

Foer was recently married to Dinah Herlands of New York, whom he met at Yale. [http://www.shearithisrael.org/folder/lifecycle_congrats_new.html]

He is the Secretary of the Athanasius Kircher Society, a group created to "perpetuate the spirit and sensibilities of the late Athanasius Kircher, SJ" ^{[http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?page_id=4]} .

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