Joshua Foer
Science journalist and author
Joshua Foer is a freelance journalist and author who writes mainly about science. He won the 2006 USA Memory Championship and wrote about it in Moonwalking with Einstein.
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American Born 1982 in Washington, D.C., United States
About Joshua Foer
Foer is a freelance journalist and author whose main focus is science. He graduated from Yale University in 2004, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and National Geographic. He won the USA Memory Championship in 2006, and his 2011 book Moonwalking with Einstein tells that story. The book follows his path as a participatory journalist who became a national memory champion, guided by the British memory expert Ed Cooke. Foer also co-founded Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the world's wonders and curiosities, with Dylan Thuras.