Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel, Everything is Illuminated, was inspired by a photograph of the woman who apparently saved his grandfather from the Nazis. His second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2006), tells the story of a boy in New York traumatised by 9/11. Born in 1977 in Washington DC, Foer studied at Princeton and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and son.

What is the last thing you read that made you laugh out loud?