Personal Life
Foner is married to Lynn Garafola, professor of dance at Barnard College and dance critic, historian, and curator. They have one daughter. He had been previously married to screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal.
Eric Foner is the nephew of the late Marxist labor historian Philip S. Foner.
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