![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Įugenides knew he wanted to be a writer from a relatively early age, stating "I decided very early during my junior year of high school. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University. I felt that since I was going to try to add to the tradition, I had better know something about it." In 1986, he earned an M.A. I entered the honors program in English, which forced me to study the entire English tradition, beginning with Beowulf. Of his decision to study at Brown, Eugenides remarked "I chose Brown largely in order to study with John Hawkes, whose work I admired. ![]() He graduated from Brown in 1982 after taking a year off to travel across Europe and volunteer with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School and then Brown University (where he became friends with contemporary Rick Moody ). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of a feature film, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.Įugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan to a father of Greek descent and a mother of English and Irish ancestry. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. ![]()
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