Part of it was set in Berlin, Germany, where Eugenides lived from 1999 to 2004, but it was chiefly concerned with the Greek-American immigrant experience in the United States, against the rise and fall of Detroit.
His 2002 novel, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Ambassador Book Award. In the fall of 2007, Eugenides joined the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing. Jeffrey Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife, the photographer and sculptor Karen Yamauchi, and their daughter. He has said that he has been haunted by the decline of Detroit. The novel was reissued in 2009.Įugenides is 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 Detroit and his high-school experiences on his writings. His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, gained mainstream interest with the 1999 film adaptation directed by Sofia Coppola. 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".
in Creative Writing from Stanford University. He took his undergraduate degree at Brown University, graduating in 1983. He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School. Middlesex is a fantastically epic piece of historical fiction, and a pretty okay coming-of-age story - the first half of the novel, which follows Calliope's grandparents as they immigrate to America, is much stronger because of its basis in Eugenides' personal family history, which it's clear he put a lot of research and thought into.Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish extraction.Įugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, of Greek and Irish descent.
The title refers to the street where the family eventually move to in suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan, but also to the protagonist Calliope "Cal" Stephanides, who discovers that he is intersex, despite being raised as a girl. Loosely inspired by aspects of Eugenides' life and his Greek heritage, Middlesex is an intergenerational family drama that follows three generations of Greek-Americans descended from a brother and sister who immigrate from their tiny village to Prohibition-era Detroit. But Middlesex, which was published in 2002 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003, is far more ambitious and Herculean than his quiet deep dive into the mysteries of adolescence. Eugenides is best known for writing The Virgin Suicides, which went on to become an acclaimed Sofia Coppola film.
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