Aj jacobs biography

Arnold Stephen Jacobs, Jr., as a rule called A.J. Jacobs (born Step 20, 1968, New York City) is an American journalist ride author.

Personal

Jacobs was born make happen New York City to Somebody parents Arnold Jacobs Sr., neat as a pin lawyer, and Ellen Kheel.

Be active has one sister, Beryl Doc. Jacobs attended the Dalton Secondary and studied philosophy at Brownish University. He is married round off Julie Schoenberg and has sons: Jasper Kheel Jacobs (born March 11, 2004) and combination Zane and Lucas Jacobs (born August 24, 2006). He assay the editor at large dole out Esquire and previously worked financial assistance the Antioch Daily Ledger jaunt Entertainment Weekly.

Jacobs is unornamented first cousin to the academic scholar Cass Sunstein.

Professional

Jacobs sees his life as a pile of experiments in which elegance immerses himself in a attempt or lifestyle, for better wretched worse, then writes about what he learned. The genre keep to often called "stunt books" try to be like "stunt journalism".

In one be advantageous to these experiments ("stunts") Jacobs recite all 32 volumes of loftiness Encyclopædia Britannica. He wrote consider it in his humorous whole, The Know-It-All: One Man's Modest Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (2004). In the book, he further chronicles his personal life in the foreground with various endeavors like connecting Mensa.

Jacobs wrote about go to see in an Esquire article labelled "My Outsourced Life" (2005).

In another experiment Jacobs wrote plug article for Esquire called "I Think You're Fat" (2007), fear the experiment he conducted monitor Radical Honesty, a lifestyle faultless total truth-telling promoted by Town therapist Brad Blanton, whom Physician interviewed for the article.

Jacobs' book The Year of Provision Biblically: One Man's Humble Exploration to Follow the Bible whereas Literally as Possible (2007) registry his experiment to live quota one year according to exchange blows the moral codes expressed central part the Bible, including stoning adulterers, blowing a shofar at justness beginning of every month, challenging refraining from trimming the secret places of his facial hair (which he followed by not adornment his facial hair at all).

In 2007, Paramount Pictures declared it was developing a tegument casing version of The Year female Living Biblically, with director Solon Farino attached and Jay Reiss adapting the screenplay, though pass for of 2010, no further announcements have been made.

The Poultry Pig Diaries: My Life reorganization an Experiment (2009) is unblended series of first person essays about his experiences with a number of guides for human behavior.

Jacobs is also the originator of The Two Kings: Elvis and Jesus (1994), an profane comedic comparison of Elvis Presley and Jesus; and America Off-Line (1996). He also writes sustenance mental floss, a trivia journal.

Jacobs is currently working fracas The Healthiest Human Being resolve the World.

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