Guide Note

Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist.

Fast Facts

Born: March 8, 1960
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan
Literary Genre: Fiction
Awards: Whiting Writer's Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize
Graduate of Brown University and Stanford University
Middlesex selected in 2007 for Oprah’s Book Club

Career

Since 1988, Jeffrey Eugenides has written short stories that have been published in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Paris Review among others.

His 1993 debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, is about a town's fascination with the suicides of five sisters. It was adapted into a film six years later, starring Kirsten Dunst and directed by Sofia Coppola.

Eugenides achieved more success with his 2002 follow-up, Middlesex, a coming-of-age story about an intersexed person with 5-ARD. The novel won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and gained further interest upon being selected for Oprah’s Book Club in the summer of 2007.

Eugenides currently lives in Berlin with his family.

Notable Works

1993 - The Virgin Suicides
2002 - Middlesex

Categories

Entertainment | Authors and Writers | Fiction Writers

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Jeffrey Eugenides

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The New Yorker: "At the Drive-In" by Jeffrey Eugenides (June 11, 2007)
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The New York Times: Middlesex Review (September 15, 2002)

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GlobeandMail.com: Middlesex came to him in a dream (2007)
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Telegraph: A writer's life: Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)

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Guardian Unlimited: With gods on your side (2003)
Deutsche Welle: American Expat in Berlin Wins 2003 Pulitzer Prize (2003)
3:AM Magazine: Jeffrey Eugenides Interview (2003)
Salon.com: Sex, fate, and Zeus and Hera's kinkiest argument (Eugenides Interview) (2002)
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Jeffrey Eugenides Publications Timeline

1993: The Virgin Suicides
2002: Middlesex

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