Jeffrey Eugenides (b.1960,) fully Jeffrey Kent Eugenides, is an American novelist and short-story writer. He won the Pulitzer for Middlesex (2002,) a novel about the life of an intersex person.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Eugenides began writing earnestly after spending a year volunteering with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. At one time, he thought he might become a Trappist monk, but life didn’t suit him. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides (1993,) is about the lives of the teenaged Lisbon sisters, who all commit suicide. The book became a best-seller and later a film starring Kirsten Dunst, directed by Sofia Coppola.
Eugenides’s subsequent novels are Middlesex (2002; 2003 Pulitzer for Fiction) and The Marriage Plot (2011.) His short story collections include Fresh Complaint (2017.)
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Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
—Jeffrey Eugenides
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