A.J. Jacobs

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 an