Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides is an American author of novels and short stories. He is best known for writing The Virgin Suicides, which was later turned into a film, and Middlesex, a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner. Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan as the youngest of three children. He went on to attend Brown University, graduating in 1982. However, he did not go straight to work and instead took a year off to travel across Europe and volunteer with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. He wanted to be a writer from a young age and went to Brown UNiversity primarily to study the work of John Hawkes. He published his first novel, The Virgin Suicides, in 1993. That book was made into a movie in 1999 by director Sofia Coppola and starred Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, and Kathleen Turner. Get notified when Jeffrey Eugenides releases a new book at BookNotification.com.