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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides

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novelist, short story writer, academic

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an author whose professional career began in 1993. He was born on March 8, 1960. His body of work consists of five publications.

Eugenides has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Pulitzer Prize collection. His name is referenced by 349 other encyclopedia articles.

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Type
Group
Origin
Sweden
Active from
1993
Active to
2016-12-17
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Key facts

Born
( 1960-03-08 ) March 8, 1960 (age 66) , Detroit, Michigan , U.S.
Occupation
Author
Education
Brown University ( AB ), Stanford University ( MA )
Genre
Fiction
Notable works
Middlesex (2002)
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2003)
Relatives
Kallie Branciforte (niece)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Kent
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Detroit
Occupation
academic
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
creative writing
Genre
romance
Image
Eugenides, Jeffrey.jpg
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influenced by
Vladimir Nabokov
Commons category
Jeffrey Eugenides
date of birth
1960-03-08
start of work period
1993-00-00
name in native language
Jeffrey Eugenides
birth name
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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Encyclopedic overview

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex 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 Médicis.

Biography

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