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Jeffrey Eugenides (1960 - )
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Both of these books of fabulous, read them both in whatever order you like!
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Jeffrey Eugenides-- winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Middlesex--was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960, the third son of an American-born father whose Greek parents immigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent. Eugenides was educated at public and private schools, graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, and received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986. Two years later, in 1988, he published his first short story.
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". His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993, and has since been translated into fifteen languages nd made into a major motion picture. His second novel, Middlesex, is published in paperback in September 2003.
Eugenides is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Foundation for the Arts, a Whiting Writers' Award, and the Harold D. Vursell Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. In the past few years he has been a Fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American Academy in Berlin.
Jeffrey Eugenides lives in Berlin with his wife and daughter.
Source: Bloomsbury.com
nickyturnill May 29th, 2007 02:48 PM PST