A. J. Jacobs
AJ Jacobs ( born March 20, 1968 in New York City; Complete name Arnold Stephen Jacobs, Jr.) is an American journalist and author.
Life
AJ Jacobs, son of the New York Attorney Arnold Jacobs Sr. and his wife Ellen Kheel, studied philosophy at Brown University. He looks at his life and career as a ongoing project, in which he reports in book form on the performed experiments. In addition to his work as an author, Jacobs worked as a senior editor of men's magazine Esquire. He had previously written for Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly. He also published several articles in the New Yorker, the Washington Times and the New York Times. Because of its unusual books had Jacobs in various talk shows guest appearances, including on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America and the Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Some of his works have been optioned for film adaptations, as Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to The Bible & I and Universal Pictures the rights of My Outsourced Life, an article by Jacobs. 2011 was produced by NBC under the direction Jack Black a pilot for a sitcom entitled My Life as to experiment, based on the book person you are grown fat by AJ Jacobs based. The series was, however, not ordered and the pilot never published.
AJ Jacobs is married to Julie Schoenberg and has three sons.
As author Jacobs became famous that he has all 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica and read the experiences made during this period in his book Britannica and I: . From someone who set out to be the smartest person in the world alphabetical order described. The individual entries from the Encyclopædia Britannica include stories from everyday life during the current experiment, and partly also from his childhood, attached.
In his 2007 published book The Bible and I Jacobs talks about his experiment to keep for a year strictly to the text of the Bible, which included, among other things, growing a full beard.
In 2009 he published the book man, you've become fat! How do I even always told the truth and other self-experiments, in which he wrote of further self- experimentation.
After Jacobs in The Bible and I for his soul and in Britannica and I had taken care of his mind, as he described in his 2012 published book Saufit how he wanted to be for months the healthiest person in the world.
Bibliography
- The Know -It-All. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2004. German edition: Britannica & I. From someone who set out to become the smartest person in the world. From the American Thomas Mohr. List, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-471-79513-8
- German edition: The Bible & I: From someone who set out to take the book of books literally. From the American Thomas Mohr. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-550-08724-0
- German edition: Man, you become fat! How do I even always told the truth and other self-experiments. From the American Kristof Hahn. List, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-548-60981-2
- German edition: Saufit: From someone who set out never to be sick again. From the American Susanne Reinker. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2013 ISBN 3-550-08781-0
- Esquire presents: what it feels like ... Three Rivers Press, 2003. German edition: In the mouth of the shark. From the American Alexandra cutlers. Knaur, Munich 2006 ISBN 3-426-77794-0