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1. 1. www.exclusivebooks.com

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   Jeffrey Eugenides is an American Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist and short story writer whose fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists'.
   
   At an earlier time in his life, Eugenides considered becoming a priest or a monk, and even worked alongside Mother Theresa in India for one week during a travelling break from college.He says about this period in his life, 'I was so unformed in my personality and was trying on different personas; being a saint was a bit tight on my shoulders, though.At 20 you can really change your philosophy of the world by reading a single book, or by one chance meeting.'
   
   Eugenides's first book, The Virgin Suicides, was published to great acclaim in 1993.It tells the story of five sisters who all commit suicide in the same year.Trying to fathom events two decades later, one of the boys who used to spy on them recreates the fateful year, from the youngest's plunge to her own death, to the ultimate field day of the national press.Eugenides received his inspiration for the book when his nephew's babysitter revealed to him that she and all her siblings had attempted suicide.
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   Middlesex earned Eugenides the Pulitzer Prize in 2003.
   
   Biographical detailJeffrey Eugenides was born of Greek and Irish parents on 8 March 1960, in Detroit, Michigan.Eugenides received his education at public and private schools, after which he graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1983.He also received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986.Eugenides published his first short story in 1988 and his first novel in 1993.He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the Whiting Writer's Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Henry D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Pulitzer Prize in 2003.For the past few years, Eugenides has been a Fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American Academy in Berlin.However, after joining the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing in 2007, he now lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife and daughter.
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   "New Yorkers always act as though Chicago is in the icy zone and they are in the tropical zone," said the novelist Jeffrey Eugenides when I reached him by phone in New York."They act like Chicago is Nome, Alaska.The way they act about Chicago weather is the way they act about the city in general.They want to dismiss it."
   
   Eugenides, the author of "The Virgin Suicides" and "Middlesex," has been teaching at Princeton University in New Jersey since last fall, but he spent three recent winters in Chicago.Having once heard him bemoan how New Yorkers dis Chicago weather, I phoned him to corroborate my complaint.
   
   When he moved to Chicago, he said, he took to "obsessively" comparing the weather with New York's in hopes of proving New Yorkers wrong.
   
   "I've had this conversation numerous times," he said.

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   The Grosse Pointe area is the setting of two novels by writer Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides, which is satirical of his high school, University Liggett School, and Middlesex.
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   * Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist.