Aj jacobs biography

Arnold Stephen Jacobs, Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs (born March 20, 1968, New York City) is an American journalist and author.

Personal

Jacobs was born in New York City to Jewish parents Arnold Jacobs Sr., a lawyer, and Ellen Kheel.

He has one sister, Beryl Jacobs. Jacobs attended the Dalton School and studied philosophy at Brown University. He is married to Julie Schoenberg and has three sons: Jasper Kheel Jacobs (born March 11, 2004) and twins Zane and Lucas Jacobs (born August 24, 2006).

He is the editor at large for Esquire and previously worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly.

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Jacobs is a first cousin to the legal scholar Cass Sunstein.

Professional

Jacobs sees his life as a series of experiments in which he immerses himself in a project or lifestyle, for better or worse, then writes about what he learned.

The genre is often called "stunt books" or "stunt journalism".

In one of these experiments ("stunts"