![]() 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. Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. He has also been a part of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American Academy in Berlin. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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. In 2017, he published his first collection of short stories, Fresh Complaint. 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. 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. In 2003, Jeffrey Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, a cross-generational tale focusing on an intersex protagonist. 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. ![]() Jeffrey Eugenides is the influential author of three wildly popular novels, as well as a new collection of short stories entitled Fresh Complaint. ![]()
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