Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, 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.
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- Born in
- Detroit
- Educated at
- Brown UniversityUniversity Liggett SchoolStanford University
- Awards
- 🏆 Q130553019🏆 Q137542106🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
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