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Jeffrey Eugenides

Born:March 13 1960 (1960--) (age 47)
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Occupation:Fiction writer, Teacher
Nationality:American
Genres:Fiction


Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (b. April 13 1960, Detroit, Michigan) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish extraction.

He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School and graduated from Brown University in 1983. He later earned a M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford University. In 1986 he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for his story Here Comes Winston, Full of the Holy Spirit. His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, gained mainstream interest with the 1999 film adaptation by Sofia Coppola.

He is very reluctant to appear in public or disclose details about his private life, except through Michigan-area book signings in which he details his high-school experiences' influence on his writings.

His 2002 novel, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He now lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. As of fall 2007 he will join the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.

Novels

Short stories

  • "Air Mail" (Best American Short Stories, Proulx ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
  • "The Ancient Myths" (The Spatial Uncanny, James Casebere, Sean Kelly Gallery, 2001)
  • "Baster" (Wonderful Town, Remnick ed., Random House 2000)
  • "Early Music" (The New Yorker, Oct. 10, 2005, pp. 72-79)
  • "The Speed of Sperm" (Granta, 1997)
  • "Timeshare" (The Pushcart Prize XXIII, Henderson ed., Pushcart, 1999)

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Interviews

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The Virgin Suicides

Author Jeffrey Eugenides
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date 1993
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Sofia Coppola

Birth name Sofia Carmina Coppola
Born May 14 1971 (1971--) (age 36)
New York City, New York, U.S.
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Middlesex

Author Jeffrey Eugenides
Cover artist William Webb (Bloomsbury paperback)
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
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Pulitzer Prize

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The Virgin Suicides

Author Jeffrey Eugenides
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date 1993
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Middlesex

Author Jeffrey Eugenides
Cover artist William Webb (Bloomsbury paperback)
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK)
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    The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
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