Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Eating Animals. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. "Everything Is Illuminated "received a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, and their children. Nathan Englander is the author of the novel, The Ministry of Special Cases," the play, The Twenty-Seventh Man," and the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank," which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Rachel Silver.