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A. J. Jacobs (1)

This page covers the author of The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World.

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A.J. Jacobs is an editor at Esquire magazine and the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment, and The Know-It-All. — biography from Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
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Jacobs, Arnold Stephen, Jr.
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1968-03-20
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male
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USA
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New York City, New York, USA
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New York City, New York, USA
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Brown University
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Sunstein, Cass (First Cousin)
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Sloan Harris (ICM)
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Esquire
Mental Floss
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