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	'''Jeffrey Kent Eugenides''' (born ], ] in ]) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning ]ist and short story writer.		'''Jeffrey Kent Eugenides''' (born ], ] in ]) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning ]ist and short story writer. He is of Greek and Irish descent.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Occupation	Fiction writer, Teacher
Nationality	American
Genre	Fiction

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. He is of Greek and Irish descent.

He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School, then graduated from Brown University 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 by Sofia Coppola.

He is very reluctant to appear in public or disclose details about his private life, except through Michigan-area book signings in which he details the influence of his high-school experiences on his writings.

Jeffery Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife - photographer and sculptor Karen Yamauchi - and their daughter.

His 2002 novel, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Part of it is set in Berlin, Germany, where Eugenides lived from 1999 to 2004. In the Fall of 2007 he joined the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.

Novels

The Virgin Suicides (1993) (ISBN 0-446-67025-1)
Middlesex (2002) (ISBN 0-374-19969-8) - Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Short stories

"Air Mail" (Best American Short Stories, Proulx ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
"The Ancient Myths" (The Spatial Uncanny, James Casebere, Sean Kelly Gallery, 2001)
"Baster" (Wonderful Town, Remnick ed., Random House 2000)
"Early Music" (The New Yorker, Oct. 10, 2005, pp. 72-79)
"The Speed of Sperm" (Granta, 1997)
"Timeshare" (The Pushcart Prize XXIII, Henderson ed., Pushcart, 1999)
"My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro" (Editor of anthology, 2008) (ISBN 978-0061240379)
"Great Experiment" (The New Yorker, Mar. 31, 2008)

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