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Jeffrey Eugenides


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

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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: 4.01 · 2,254,473 ratings · 95,966 reviews · 34 distinct worksSimilar authors
Middlesex

4.03 avg rating — 631,118 ratings — published 2002 — 201 editions
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The Virgin Suicides

3.81 avg rating — 309,154 ratings — published 1993 — 179 editions
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The Marriage Plot

3.46 avg rating — 119,566 ratings — published 2011 — 110 editions
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Fresh Complaint: Stories

3.61 avg rating — 8,774 ratings — published 2017 — 52 editions
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My Mistress's Sparrow is De...

3.90 avg rating — 2,932 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
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Air Mail

3.55 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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3.96 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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March

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Bronze

3.53 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2018
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“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“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

“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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