Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short-story writer best known for The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002) — which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — and The Marriage Plot (2011). Born in Detroit and raised in the Grosse Pointe area, his work often explores coming-of-age themes, identity, immigrant family histories, and the social landscape of mid- to late-20th-century America. He has taught creative writing at Princeton and New York University and his fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.