Joshua Foer Biography

Joshua Foer is an American freelance journalist. He was born and brought up in Washington, D.C., United States. His main field of interest is hard sciences.

In 2006, Foer was the USA Memory Champion (a competition founded in 1997 designed to test the limits of the human memory) as it was recorded in ‘Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art And Science Of Remembering Everything’, the 2011 book.

Joshua Foer Age

Foer is 42 years old. He was born on September 23, 1982, in Washington, D.C., United States of America. He celebrates his birthday on 23 September every year, and his birth sign is Libra.

Joshua Foer Height

Foer stands at a height of 4 feet 7 inches. He has brown eyes and hair color.

Joshua Foer Weight

Foer has a moderate weight.

Joshua Foer Family

Foer is the younger brother of former ‘The New Republic editor’ Franklin Foer and novelist, Jonathan Safran Foer. He is the son of Esther Foer, Director of Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, and Albert Foer, founder and former president of the think-tank American Antitrust Institute.

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Joshua Foer Wife – Married

Foer is married to Dinah Herlands. He met her while at Yale University.

Joshua Foer Yale – Education

He was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Georgetown Day School. Foer went on to attend Yale University, where he resided in Silliman College and Trumbull College and majored in ecology and evolutionary biology and graduated with a B.A. in 2004.

Joshua Foer Moonwalking With Einstein Book

‘Moonwalking With Einstein’ is Foer’s first book. He sold it to Penguin, a British publishing house, in March 2011 for publication. He was paid a $1.2 million advance for the book. Shortly after its publication, Columbia Pictures selected the book’s film rights. The book talks about Foer’s life as a citizen journalist (Citizen Journalism involves citizens playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.) under the custody of British Grand Master of Memory, Ed Cooke.

Joshua was the 2006 winner of the U.S.A. Memory Championship. In addition, he set a new USA record in the speed cards event, memorizing a deck of 52 cards in 1 minute and 40 seconds.

Joshua has also made an appearance in various publications such as The Washington Post, Slate, The New York Times, and The Nation.

He has come up with a number of organizations and websites that are based on his interests. He founded the Athanasius Kircher Society, which in the past, was comprised of one session which featured ‘megasavant’ Kim Peek (Lawrence Kim Peek) and retired officer Joseph Kittinger (Joseph William Kittinger II).

Foer has also taken part in the co-founding of Atlas Obscura in 2009. His co-founder is the filmmaker Dylan Thuras. Atlas Obscura is an online magazine that talks about The World’s Wonders and Curiosities.

Joshua Foer TED Talk Speaker

In 2005 science writer Joshua Foer went to cover the U.S. Memory Championship. A year later he was back — as a contestant. A year of mental training with Europe’s top memorizer turned into a book, Moonwalking with Einstein, which is both a chronicle of his immersion in the memory culture and wonderfully accessible and informative introduction to the science of memory.

Much more surprisingly, that year of training also turned into a first-place victory at the national competition in New York and the chance to represent the U.S. at the World Memory Championship. Foer’s writing has appeared in National Geographic, Slate, the New York Times, and other publications. He is the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the world’s wonders and curiosities, and is also the co-founder of the design competition Sukkah City.