Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (b. April 13, 1960, Detroit, Michigan) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish extraction.

He attended Grosse Pointe's prestigious University Liggett School and graduated from Brown University in 1983. He later earned a M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford University. 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. His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, gained mainstream interest with the 1999 film adaptation by Sofia Coppola.

He is very reluctant to appear in public or disclose details about his private life, except through Michigan-area book signings in which he details his high-school experiences' influence on his writings.

His 2002 novel, Middlesex, won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. He now lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. As of fall 2007 he will join the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.