Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1960, to a Greek-American father and an American mother of English and Irish descent. Educated at public and private schools, Eugenides graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, and received an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986.
In 1993 he published his first
novel, The Virgin Suicides. The book
was very well received and, consequently, it has been
translated into 34 languages and adapted into a feature film by Sofia Coppola. Almost
ten years later, in 2002, his second novel titled Middlesex was released. It
won The Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was named the Great American Novel by
the New York Times Book Review. In 2011 Eugenides published his most recent
book, the very well received, Marriage
Plot. The novel was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle
Award and longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Eugenides' fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best
American Short Stories, and The Gettysburg Review.
In the past few years he has been
a Fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American
Academy in Berlin. After several years in Berlin and Chicago, Eugenides now
lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife and daughter, where he is
Professor of Creative Writing in the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts at
Princeton.
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