1. Jeffrey Eugenides has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot.
14 Facts About Jeffrey Eugenides
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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides was born in Detroit on March 8,1960.
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Jeffrey Eugenides is of Greek descent through his father and English and Irish descent through his mother.
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Jeffrey Eugenides attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School and then Brown University.
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Jeffrey Eugenides graduated from Brown in 1982 after taking a year off to travel across Europe, during which time he volunteered with Mother Teresa in Calcutta.
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Jeffrey Eugenides was raised in Detroit and cites the influence of the city and his high school experiences on his writings.
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From 1999 to 2004, Jeffrey Eugenides lived in Berlin, where he moved after being awarded a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service to write in Berlin for a year.
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In 2018, Jeffrey Eugenides joined New York University's Creative Writing Program as a tenured full professor and the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor in American Letters.
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Jeffrey Eugenides met his former wife, photographer and sculptor Karen Yamauchi, at the MacDowell artist's program.
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Jeffrey Eugenides published short stories in the nine years between The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, primarily in The New Yorker.
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Jeffrey Eugenides temporarily put Middlesex aside in the late '90s to begin work on a novel that would eventually serve as the basis for his third.
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Jeffrey 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 Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and The Telegraph.
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In 2017, Jeffrey Eugenides published Fresh Complaint, a collection of short stories written between 1988 and 2017.
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Jeffrey Eugenides described the work as "a very mixed bag of stories, quite different, not all arranged around a certain theme".