Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides
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.
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time....Read More
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The first collection of short fiction from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex.
Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American. The stories in ...Read More
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by
The New York Times Book Review • NPR • The New Republic • Salon • The Seattle Times • Houston Chronicle • The Miami Herald • Publisher's Weekly
"Remind[s] us with uncommon understanding what it is to be...Read More
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Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.
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An Evening with Jeffrey Eugenides
Read Jonathan Safran Foer’s conversation with Jeffrey Eugenides.
Read Juliette Lewis’ interview with Jeffrey.
Read “A Conversation with Jeffrey Eugenides” on Oprah.com.
Check out Jeffrey’s appearance at the 2016 New Yorker Festival alongside Zadie Smith.
Read a Jeffrey’s discussion with Slate about The Marriage Plot.
Read an interview with Jeffrey in the New York Times.
Watch Jeffrey discuss his writing and his hometown with Sam Tanenhaus of the New York Times.
Read The Paris Review‘s interview with Jeffrey.
Read Jeffrey’s review of Karl Knausgaard’s My Struggle: Book 4 in the New York Times.
Like Jeffrey’s page on Facebook.
Praise for Middlesex
“Expansive and radiantly generous. . . Deliriously American.”
—The New York Times Book Review (cover review)“A towering achievement. . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review (cover review)“A big, cheeky, splendid novel. . . it goes places few narrators would dare to tread. . . lyrical and fine.”
—The Boston Globe“Wildly imaginative. . . frequently hilarious and touching.”
—USA TodayBook This Speaker
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