Author
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. He attended Brown University and graduated with a magna cum laude and later graduated Stanford University with a M.A in English and Creative Writing in 1986. Eugenides’ first book, The Virgin Suicides was published in 1993 and was adapted into a motion picture in 1999 by Sofia Coppola. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists." In 2003, Jeffrey Eugenides recieved the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Medicicis. Eugenides 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. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also been a part of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American Academy in Berlin. After spending some time in Berlin, Eugenides now lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter. He joined the faculty of Princeton in the program of Creative Writing in the fall of 2007. In January 2008 he published an anthology, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro, the proceeds of which go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago which is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Jeffrey Eugenides newest book, The Marriage Plot was published in 2011. It has already received the 2011 Salon Book award.