Franklin Foer

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Franklin Foer /ˈfɔər/ is an American journalist and editor of The New Republic.[1] Foer is a 2012 Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation as of Sept. 1, 2011.

Personal life

Franklin Foer is the son of Albert Foer, a lawyer, and Esther Safran Foer and the elder brother of novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and freelance journalist Joshua Foer.[2] He graduated from Columbia University[3] and lives in Washington, D.C..

Career

Franklin Foer has written for Slate[4] and New York magazine.[5] He served as editor of American magazine The New Republic from 2006 until 2010, when he resigned. He then became editor again in 2012.[6] His book How Soccer Explains the World was published in 2004.[7] The book Jewish Jocks, which he co-edited with New Republic writer Marc Tracy, was published in 2012; Foer has described it as an effort to avoid the "simple hagiography" he found in some of the many existing books about Jewish sports figures.[8][9][10]

Foer was editor of The New Republic during the Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Franklin Foer – The New Republic". Retrieved 2011-05-29. 
  2. ↑ Kolhatkar, Sheelah (2006-12-17). "The Foer Family". The New York Observer. Retrieved 2008-12-08. 
  3. ↑ http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/458
  4. ↑ "Slate magazine". Slate magazine. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
  5. ↑ "Archives Franklin Foer". New York magazine. Retrieved 2008-12-03. 
  6. ↑ "The New Republic masthead". The New Republic. Archived from the original on 2008-07-18. Retrieved 2008-11-15. 
  7. ↑ Bures, Frank (2004-07-07). "Soccerworld". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2008-12-08. 
  8. ↑ "'Unorthodox' Book Of 'Jewish Jocks' Puts Stereotypes Aside", Morning Edition, NPR, November 23, 2012 (radio transcript).
  9. ↑ Steven Zeitchik, "In search of 'Jewish Jocks': Editors Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy wanted to memorialize Jewish athletes, their accomplishments and, in some cases, their egos and foibles." Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2012.
  10. ↑ Daniel Plotz, "Who’s the Greatest Jewish Athlete? An interview with Franklin Foer about Jewish jocks, and how they changed sports history." Slate, October 23, 2012.
  11. ↑ Cohen, Patricia (2007-07-28). "Shedding Pen Name, Private Says He's ‘Baghdad Diarist'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-02. 

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