A.J. Jacobs filmography and biography
A.J. Jacobs biography
A.J. Jacobs is a New York Times bestselling author, Esquire editor and
human guinea pig.
Among Jacobs' life experiments: -- The Know-It-All. The bestselling
memoir of the year he spent reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica
in a quest to become the smartest person in the world -- The Year of
Living Biblically. The soon-to-be-released book about his life as the
ultimate biblical man. He followed every rule of the Bible, from the
Ten Commandments down to stoning adulterers. --"My Outsourced Life". An
Esquire article about hiring a team of people in Bangalore, India to
live his life for him - answer his emails, call his coworkers, argue
with his wife, and read bedtime stories to his son. -- "My Life as a
Hot Woman". A quest to find his beautiful nanny a boyfriend. The
method? By impersonating her on an online dating site. -- "I Think
You're Fat". An immersion into the bizarre, entertaining and terrifying
world of Radical Honesty - which means removing the filter between your
brain and mouth.
Jacobs is the editor at large at Esquire magazine. He has written for
The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine and Dental
Economics magazine, one of the top five magazines about the financial
side of toothcare.
In 2004, Simon & Schuster published the Know-It-All. It subsequently
spent eight weeks on the New York Times paperback bestseller list. It
was praised by Time magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, USA Today, Janet
Maslin in the New York Times and AJ's uncle Henry on Amazon.com.
Jacobs has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America and
the second-to-last episode of the John McEnroe Show on MSNBC, which
also featured Dionne Warwick wearing a fannypack.
He is a periodic commentator on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, where he
discusses important facts, such as the fact that oppossums have 13
nipples.
On October 9, his new book The Year of Living Biblically will be
released. It has already garnered positive reviews from Publishers
Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.
The book optioned by Paramount Pictures and Plan B productions. The
script has been written by a talented redhead named Jay Reiss (one of
the writers of the Broadway show The Putnam County Spelling Bee). The
director is a British fellow named Julian Farino is attached to direct
it.
Jacobs grew up in New York City. His father is a lawyer who holds the
world record for the most footnotes in a law review article (4,824).
His wife works for a highbrow scavenger hunt called Watson Adventures.
He lives in New York.
A.J. Jacobs filmography
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Intrusion | 2010 |
| The American Outsourcing Epidemic | 2006 |
| The Colbert Report | 2005 |
| The Hour | 2005 |
| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | 2002 |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 1993 |
| CBS News Up to the Minute | 1992 |