Jeffrey Eugenides is the influential author of three wildly popular novels, as well as a new collection of short stories entitled Fresh Complaint. Eugenides’ first novel, The Virgin Suicides, follows the mysterious lives and deaths of five sisters and was adapted into a critically-acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola in 1999.

In 2003, Jeffrey Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, a cross-generational tale focusing on an intersex protagonist. Middlesex also received the Ambassador Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and France’s Prix Medicis. It was also selected for Oprah’s Book Club.

His 2011 novel, The Marriage Plot, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won both the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize. In 2017, he published his first collection of short stories, Fresh Complaint.

Jeffrey is the recipient of many awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Henry D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also been a part of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American Academy in Berlin.

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. He attended Brown University and graduated with magna cum laude and later graduated Stanford University with a M.A in English and Creative Writing in 1986. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta‘s “Best of Young American Novelists.” After spending some time in Berlin, Eugenides now lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter. He joined the faculty of Princeton in the program of Creative Writing in the fall of 2007. In January 2008, he published an anthology, My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro, the proceeds of which went directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. You can follow Jeffrey on Facebook.