Joshua Foer (born September 23, 1982) is a freelance journalist and author living in Brookline, Massachusetts, with a primary focus on science.

[7] The book describes his journey throughout the world of competitive memory and attempts to delineate the capacity of the human mind.

[9] Foer's works have appeared in the New York Times,[10] the Washington Post,[11] Slate,[12] The Nation,[13] and The New Yorker.

[17] Foer is also the co-author of the #1 NYT bestselling book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders.

In 2013, Foer co-founded the website Sefaria with Google developer Brett Lockspeiser, in order to transcribe, translate and digitize the core texts of Judaism.

[19] Since then, the website has grown to include a full digitization of the Talmud with a focus on connecting links to related texts within the Jewish faith.

[20] The organization recently announced plans to build similar website archives, starting with the preservation of central texts surrounding the American Revolution and United States democracy.