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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States on March 8, 1960. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is a writer, novelist and university teacher. That works out to 66 years old in 2026. Education on record includes Brown University. Recorded honors include Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), grand prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro du roman étranger (2013), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2003) and 1 more.
My Take
What I admire most about Jeffrey Eugenides is his patience. He writes maybe one novel a decade, yet each one lands with real weight, and Middlesex earning the Pulitzer felt fully deserved. In an industry obsessed with output and trends, his refusal to rush is almost defiant. The cool, collective narration of The Virgin Suicides still lingers in my mind years after reading. He strikes me as a craftsman who would rather cut a paragraph fifty times than ship something half-formed. I find that kind of stubborn, unhurried devotion to the sentence increasingly rare, and genuinely worth celebrating.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェフリー・ユージェニデス
- Reading
- じぇふりー・ゆーじぇにです
- Born
- March 8, 1960 (age 66)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Rat
- Origin
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Occupation
- writer / novelist / university teacher / academic
2. Background
- University
- Brown University
Awards & achievements
- 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2013 grand prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro du roman étranger
- 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 2001 Berlin Prize
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4. About this entry
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- Last updated
- 2026-06-21
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
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Born March 8, 1960 (age 66).
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