Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middle-sex (2002) and The Marriage Plot(2011).

The Virgin Suicides has been filmed, while Middle-sex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award and France’s Prix Medicis.

Date of birth:
8th March, 1960
"Well, marriage doesn’t function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it’s in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage – and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York – it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people."
― Jeffrey Eugenides
Topic(s): Marriage
"A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room."
― Jeffrey Eugenides
Topic(s): Home
"I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I’m writing about women, I think I’m writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history."
― Jeffrey Eugenides
Topic(s): History
"Some Pulitzer winners – novelists – have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn’t been my experience."
― Jeffrey Eugenides
Topic(s): Experience

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