“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.” — Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is our contemporary. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, half Greek, half Irish. What explains his choice of a literary movement – writing short stories of Greek and Irish descent.
In 1999 his novel “The Virgin Suicides” was filmed by director Sofia Coppola. Another novel from him “Middlesex” won the prestigious 2002 Pulitzer Prize.
He is also a well-known patron of the arts. Proceeds from the sale of the collection of short stories “My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead” to Writing center 826 Chicago, established to encourage young writing people.
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