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Jeffrey Eugenides

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born
in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
March 08, 1960

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Literature & Fiction

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish extraction.

Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, of Greek and Irish descent. He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School. He took his undergraduate degree at Brown University, graduating 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 directed by Sofia Coppola. The novel was reissued in 2009.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 695,432 ratings · 33,813 reviews · 16 distinct works · Similar authors
Middlesex
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 311,218 ratings — published 2002 — 83 editions
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The Virgin Suicides
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 90,422 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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The Marriage Plot
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 57,031 ratings — published 2011 — 55 editions
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My Mistress's Sparrow is De...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 1,751 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Air Mail
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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March
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Extreme Solitude
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 1972 — 21 editions
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Second Skin
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions
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"Three brainy Ivy Leaguers fumble in love in The Marriage Plot, a new novel from the author of Middlesex. Eugenides discusses the struggle between our heads and our hearts." ...More

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Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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