Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1960. The American writer published, among other works, the novels The Virgin Suicides, adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola in 1999, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot, as well as the short-story collection The Great Experiment and the anthology My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead. Middlesex won the Pulitzer Prize and the WELT Literature Prize in 2003. The Marriage Plot received the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize. Eugenides was a professor of American literature at New York University.