Jeffrey Kent Eugenides

Novelist; Short Story Writer; Professor of Creative Writing. Pulitzer Prize-winner, known for three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). First novel, The Virgin Suicides, was translated into thirty-four languages and made into a feature film. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Middlesex, which was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Following the life and self-discovery of Calliope Stephanides, or later, Cal, a hermaphrodite raised a girl, but hormonally a boy, Middlesex also broadly deals with the Greek-American immigrant experience in the United States, the rise and fall of Detroit, and explores the experience of the intersexed in the USA.