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Jeffrey Eugenides


Born
in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
March 08, 1960

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides 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. ...more

Average rating: 4.02 · 2,421,141 ratings · 109,222 reviews · 36 distinct worksSimilar authors
Middlesex

4.03 avg rating — 642,483 ratings — published 2002 — 86 editions
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The Virgin Suicides

3.80 avg rating — 349,406 ratings — published 1993 — 184 editions
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The Marriage Plot

3.47 avg rating — 121,530 ratings — published 2011 — 22 editions
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Fresh Complaint: Stories

3.61 avg rating — 9,125 ratings — published 2017 — 51 editions
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My Mistress's Sparrow is De...

3.90 avg rating — 2,959 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions
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Air Mail

3.54 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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The Marriage Plot / Middles...

3.95 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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March

3.75 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Bronze

3.50 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2018
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides  (?)
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“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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