AJ Jacobs

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AJ Jacobs (2009)

AJ Jacobs (born March 20, 1968 in New York City ; full name Arnold Stephen Jacobs Jr. ) is an American journalist and author.

Life

AJ Jacobs, son of New York attorney Arnold Jacobs Sr. and his wife Ellen Kheel, studied philosophy at Brown University . He regards his life and career as an ongoing project in which he reports on the experiments carried out in book form. In addition to his work as a writer, Jacobs works as a senior editor of the men's magazine Esquire . He had previously written for Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly . He has also published several articles in the New Yorker , Washington Times and the New York Times . Because of his quirky books, Jacobs had guest appearances on various talk shows, including Oprah , The Today Show , Good Morning America, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien .

Some of his works have been optioned for film adaptations, for example Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to The Bible & Me and Universal Pictures acquired the rights to My Outsourced Life , an article by Jacobs. In 2011, NBC produced a pilot for a sitcom, My Life as an Experiment , under the direction of Jack Black , based on AJ Jacobs' book Man You Got Fat . However, the series was not ordered and the pilot was never released.

AJ Jacobs is married to Julie Schoenberg and has three sons.

Books

Jacobs became known as a book author through reading all 32 volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica and the experiences gained during this period in his book Britannica and I: From One Who Set Out to Become the Smartest Man in the World . in alphabetical order. The individual entries from the Encyclopædia Britannica include, among other things, stories from everyday life during the ongoing experiment, as well as partly from his childhood.

In his 2007 book The Bible and I , Jacobs reports on his experiment of sticking strictly to the wording of the Bible for a year , which included growing a full beard.

In 2009 he published the book Human, Are You Fat! How I always told the truth once and other self- experiments in which he wrote about further self-experiments.

After Jacobs had taken care of his soul in The Bible and I and his mind in Britannica and I , he described in his book Saufit , published in 2012 , how he wanted to become the healthiest person in the world for months.

bibliography

author
  • The Know-It-All . Simon & Schuster, New York 2004.
    • German edition: Britannica & I. From someone who set out to be the smartest person in the world. From the American by Thomas Mohr. List, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-471-79513-8
  • The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible . Simon & Schuster 2007.
    • German edition: The Bible & I: From someone who set out to take the book of books literally. From the American by Thomas Mohr. Ullstein, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-550-08724-0
  • The Guinea Pig Diaries . Simon & Schuster, New York 2009. Published as a softcover under the title My Life as an Experiment .
    • German edition: Man, have you gotten fat! How I always told the truth once and other self-experiments. From the American by Kristof Hahn. List, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-548-60981-2
  • Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection . Simon & Schuster 2012.
editor
  • Esquire presents: what it feels like ... Three Rivers Press 2003.
    • German edition: In the mouth of the shark. From the American by Alexandra Messerer. Knaur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-77794-0

Web links

Commons : AJ Jacobs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TheWrap TV (Tim Molloy, May 13, 2011): 'My Life As An Experiment' Inspiration Makes the Best of NBC Passing on the Show , accessed June 18, 2013.
  2. ^ AJ Jacobs: Biography , accessed June 18, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, AJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobs, Arnold Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City