It explores the experience of the intersexed in the USA. 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. 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.
826 Chicago is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Let everybody else suffer." - Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is DeadĪll proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price.
Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. A love story can never be about full possession. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler.
"When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it.
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