He also published a collection of short stories, Fresh Complaint, in 2017. His third novel, The Marriage Plot, was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His second novel, Middlesex, was published in 2002 and won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
He published his first novel, The Virgin Suicides, in 1993 to wide acclaim, going on to publish short stories in a number of prestigious magazines in the ensuing years. He spent the next few years in Brooklyn, where he worked as secretary for the Academy of American Poets. Equipped with a foundational literary education, he went on to attend Stanford University’s English and Creative Writing program. After graduating high school, he attended Brown University, where he studied English.
When he was a junior in high school, he decided he wanted to be a writer after reading James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for class. He was raised in Grosse Pointe, a wealthy suburb of Detroit. Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960.
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