Jeffrey Eugenides

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jeffrey Eugenides
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Mar 8, 1960(1960-03-08)
Age	64
Birthplace	Detroit
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Pisces

Jeffrey Eugenides Biography

Jeffrey Eugenides is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on March 8, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. An American novelist and short story writer, he is best known for his 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides and for his 2011 work The Marriage Plot.

The Virgin Suicides was made into a feature film by Sofia Coppola.

Eugenides was born the youngest of three sons in Detroit, Michigan, to a father of Greek descent and a mother of English and Irish ancestry. He attended Grosse Pointe’s private University Liggett School and attended Brown University (where he became friends with contemporary Rick Moody), graduating in 1982 after taking a year off to travel across Europe and to volunteer with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. Of his decision to study at Brown, Eugenides later remarked “I chose Brown largely in order to study with John Hawkes, whose work I admired. I entered the honors program in English, which forced me to study the entire English tradition, beginning with Beowulf. I felt that since I was going to try to add to the tradition, I had better know something about it.” 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.” After living a few years in San Francisco, he moved to Brooklyn, New York and worked as secretary for the Academy of American Poets. While in New York he made friends with numerous similarly struggling writers, including Jonathan Franzen.

He and his wife, Karen Yamauchi, settled in Princeton, New Jersey.

Jeffrey Eugenides Net Worth

Jeffrey Eugenides is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeffrey Eugenides 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He earned a degree in creative writing from Stanford University.

He received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Middlesex.

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 novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of a feature 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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After a nine-year hiatus, Eugenides published his third novel, The Marriage Plot, in October 2011. The novel follows three young adults enmeshed in a love triangle, as they graduate from Brown University and establish themselves in the world. Eugenides is currently at work developing 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 notable book for 2011; and one of the top books of the year according to lists made by Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and The Telegraph.

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Eugenides knew he wanted to be a writer from a relatively early age, stating “I decided very early; during my junior year of high school. We read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that year, and it had a big effect on me, for reasons that seem quite amusing to me now. I’m half Irish and half Greek—my mother’s family were Kentuckians, Southern hillbillies, and my paternal grandparents immigrants from Asia Minor—and, for that reason, I identified with Stephen Dedalus. Like me, he was bookish, good at academics, and possessed an “absurd name, an ancient Greek.” […] I do remember thinking […] that to be a writer was the best thing a person could be. It seemed to promise maximum alertness to life. It seemed holy to me, and almost religious.” Of his earliest literary influences, Eugenides has cited “[…] the great modernists. Joyce, Proust, Faulkner. From these I went on to discover Musil, Woolf, and others, and soon my friends and I were reading Pynchon and John Barth. My generation grew up backward. We were weaned on experimental writing before ever reading much of the nineteenth-century literature the modernists and postmodernists were reacting against.”

Where does Jeffrey Eugenides teach?

Jeffrey Eugenides, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton , has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898 as an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers and writers.

Where did Jeffrey Eugenides grow up?

Eugenides was raised in Detroit, Michigan and cites the influence of the city and his high-school experiences on his writings. He has said that he has “a perverse love” of his birthplace.

Where is Jeffrey Eugenides from?

Detroit, MI

When was Middlesex written?

Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. The book is a bestseller, with more than four million copies sold since its publication. Its characters and events are loosely based on aspects of Eugenides’ life and observations of his Greek heritage.