Jeffrey Eugenides

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name = Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. He is of Greek and Irish descent.

He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School, then graduated from Brown University in 1983. He later earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford University. In 1986 he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for his story "Here Comes Winston, Full of the Holy Spirit". His 1993 novel, "The Virgin Suicides", gained mainstream interest with the 1999 film adaptation by Sofia Coppola.

He is very reluctant to appear in public or disclose details about his private life, except through Michigan-area book signings in which he details the influence of his high-school experiences on his writings.

Jeffery Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife - photographer and sculptor Karen Yamauchi - and their daughter. [ [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/02/14/from-the-cutting-room-floor-jeffrey-eugenides.aspx The Ampersand, 14.02.2008] ]

His 2002 novel, "Middlesex", won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Ambassador Book Award. Part of it is set in Berlin, Germany, where Eugenides lived from 1999 to 2004. [ [http://www.daad.de/alumni/de/4.2.1_03.html DAAD - wandel durch austausch - change by exchange ] ] In the Fall of 2007 he joined the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing [http://www.princeton.edu/~visarts/cwr/faculty/jeugenid.html] .

Eugenides is also the editor of the collection of short stories, My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead (http://www.amazon.com/My-Mistresss-Sparrow-Dead-Stories/dp/0061240370). The proceeds of the collection goes to youth-writing center 826 Chicago (http://www.826chi.org/).

Novels

* "The Virgin Suicides" (1993) (ISBN 0-446-67025-1)
* "Middlesex" (2002) (ISBN 0-374-19969-8) - Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Short stories

* "Air Mail" (Best American Short Stories, Proulx ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
* "The Ancient Myths" (The Spatial Uncanny, James Casebere, Sean Kelly Gallery, 2001)
* "Baster" (Wonderful Town, Remnick ed., Random House 2000)
* "Early Music" (The New Yorker, Oct. 10, 2005, pp. 72-79)
* "The Speed of Sperm" (Granta, 1997)
* "Timeshare" (The Pushcart Prize XXIII, Henderson ed., Pushcart, 1999)
* "My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro" (Editor of anthology, 2008) (ISBN 978-0061240379)
* "Great Experiment" (The New Yorker, Mar. 31, 2008)

External links

* [http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/06/11/070611on_onlineonly_eugenides "At the Drive-in" - Short nonfiction piece for The New Yorker]
* [http://www.conjunctions.com/archives/c28-je.htm Full text of short story Timeshare]
* [http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/fellows/index.html Nicholl Fellowship Winners]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/03/31/080331fi_fiction_eugenides Full text of short shory "Great Experiment" published in The New Yorker]

Interviews

* [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=4248 Video of Eugenides in conversation with Salman Rushdie at LIVE from the New York Public Library] June 27, 2008
* [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=4226 Video of Eugenides in conversation with Daniel Kehlmann at PEN World Vioces] May 4, 2008
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150482 Fresh Air from WHYY interview with Terry Gross aired on 2002-09-24]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2003/sep/interview_jeffrey_eugenides.html 2003 3am Magazine interview taken in 2003]
* [http://www.bombsite.com/eugenides/eugenides.html Bomb Magazine interview]
* [http://www.powells.com/authors/eugenides.html Powells.com interview]
* [http://www.salon.com/audio/interview/2002/10/15/eugenides/ Salon.com interview]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,805334,00.html Guardian Unlimited Books interview]
* [http://www.randomhouse.ca/readmag/volume3issue2/interviews/jeffreyeugenides.htm READ Magazine interview]

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