Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer.

He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three books: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011).

The Virgin Suicides was the basis of a film, 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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Career

The Virgin Suicides, Eugenides' 1993 book, has been translated into 34 languages. The novel was turned into a critically acclaimed film directed by Sofia Coppola in 1999. The novel, set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, follows five sisters' lives and deaths as a result of an increasingly isolated year, as seen from the point of view of the neighborhood boys who obsessively monitor them.

During the nine years between The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, Eugenides wrote short stories, mainly in The New Yorker. His 1996 story "Baster" became the basis for the 2010 romantic comedy The Switch, temporarily putting Middlesex into the 1990s in order to write a book that would later be used as the basis for his third. After Middlesex's appearance in The New Yorker in 2011, "Asleep in the Lord" and "Extreme Solitude" are two excerpts from Eugenides' work-in-progress third book. Eugenides also served as the editor of a collection of short stories titled My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead. The funds from the sale will be donated to the Chicago writing center 826, which was established to support young people's writing.

Middlesex's 2002 book, in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis, he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Middlesex is also interested in the life and self-discovery of Calliope Stephanides, or later Cal, an intersex person raised a child in the United States, the rise and fall of Detroit, as well as the life and times of an intersex person in the United States.

Eugenides' third book, The Marriage Plot, came out in October 2011, after a nine-year absence. As they graduate from Brown University and establish themselves in the world, three young adults are enmeshed in a love triangle. According to Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and The Telegraph, Eugenides was currently writing a television screenplay of the novel, which was a finalist of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 2011; a New York Times bestseller; and one of the year's top books of the year.

Fresh Complaint, a collection of short stories published between 1988 and 2017, was released in 2017. "A very mixed bag of stories, very different, not all arranged around a single theme," the author characterized his work as "a very mixed bag of stories, quite different."

"I have an idea, but I'm not sure if it's going to work." He's predicted that a new book would be released at an unspecified future date: "I have an idea; I don't know if it will work." However, it will be a larger canvas with more characters than in [The Marriage Plot]. I'm going to respond to a very small order once more. Well, I'm not going to say, but I know how it's going to be written and what the system's going to be like, and it's likely to be very different than The Marriage Plot."

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Awards and honors

• 1986 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
• 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for "The Virgin Suicides" [short story] (The Paris Review)
• 1993 Whiting Award
• 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1994 & 1996 MacDowell Fellowship
• 1995 Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award (American Academy of Arts and Letters)
• 2000–2001 Berlin Prize Fellow (American Academy in Berlin)
• 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (for Middlesex)
• 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for Middlesex)
• 2003 Welt-Literaturpreis
• 2004 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist (for Middlesex)
• 2011 Salon Book Award (for The Marriage Plot)
• 2011 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011 list (for The Marriage Plot)
• 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (for The Marriage Plot)
• 2013 International Dublin Literary Award longlist (for The Marriage Plot)
• 2013 Named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2013 Fitzgerald Prize (for "The Marriage Plot") - French prize rewards a novel, or a new French-language or translated in English reflecting the elegance, wit, style and taste of the lifestyle of the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• 2014 Awarded honorary Doctorate of Letters from Brown University
• 2018 Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters