Editing Jeffrey Eugenides (section)

==Career==

===''The Virgin Suicides''===
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Eugenides' 1993 novel, ''The Virgin Suicides'', has been translated into 34 languages. In 1999, the novel was adapted into [[The Virgin Suicides (film)|a critically acclaimed film]] directed by [[Sofia Coppola]]. Set in [[Grosse Pointe, Michigan]], the novel follows the lives and deaths by suicide of five sisters over the course of an increasingly isolated year, as told from the point of view of the neighborhood boys who obsessively watch them.<ref name="theparisreview.org"/>

===1996–2001===
Eugenides published short stories in the nine years between ''The Virgin Suicides'' and ''Middlesex'', primarily in ''[[The New Yorker]]''. His 1996 story "Baster" became the basis for the 2010 romantic comedy ''[[The Switch (2010 film)|The Switch]]. Eugenides'' temporarily put ''Middlesex'' aside in the late '90s to begin work on a novel that would eventually serve as the basis for his third.<ref name="theparisreview.org"/> Two excerpts of what became Eugenides's work-in-progress third novel after ''Middlesex'' also appeared in ''The New Yorker'' in 2011, "Asleep in the Lord" and "Extreme Solitude." Eugenides also served as the editor of the collection of short stories titled ''My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead''. The proceeds of the collection go to the writing center [[826 National|826 Chicago]], established to encourage young people's writing.

===''Middlesex''===
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His 2002 novel, ''Middlesex'', won 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]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Jeffrey Eugenides |url=http://us.macmillan.com/middlesex/JeffreyEugenides |title=Middlesex &#124; Jeffrey Eugenides &#124; Macmillan |publisher=Us.macmillan.com |date=1960-01-08 |access-date=2015-03-01}}</ref> Following the life and self-discovery of Calliope Stephanides, or later, Cal, an [[intersex]] person raised a girl, but genetically male, ''Middlesex'' also broadly deals with the [[Greek Americans|Greek American]] immigrant experience in the United States, the rise and fall of Detroit, and explores the experience of an intersex person in the United States.

===''The Marriage Plot''===
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After a nine-year hiatus, Eugenides published his third novel, ''The Marriage Plot'', in October 2011. The novel follows three young adults enmeshed in a [[love triangle]], as they graduate from Brown University and establish themselves in the world. Eugenides is currently at work{{When|date=January 2024|reason=The phrase "currently" does not specify a time period.}} developing a television screenplay of the novel, which was a finalist of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 2011; a [[The New York Times Book Review|''New York Times'' notable book]] for 2011; and one of the top books of the year according to lists made by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'', ''Kirkus Reviews'', and ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/press-release-draft/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123143612/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/press-release-draft |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 23, 2012 |title=National Book Critics Circle: National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2011 – Critical Mass Blog |publisher=Bookcritics.org |date=2012-01-21 |access-date=2015-03-01}}</ref>

===''Fresh Complaint'' and fourth novel===
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In 2017, Eugenides published ''Fresh Complaint'', a collection of short stories written between 1988 and 2017. He described the work as "a very mixed bag of stories, quite different, not all arranged around a certain theme".

He has suggested that a fourth novel will be published at an unspecified future date: "I have an idea; I don't know if it's going to work. But it's going to be a larger canvas, many more characters than in [''The Marriage Plot'']. Again, I'm going to respond to a very small directive. It's going to be written, well, I'm not going to say — but I know how it's going to be written and what the structure's going to be, and it's going to be quite different than ''The Marriage Plot.''"<ref name="salon">{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/09/26/jeffrey_eugenides_i_dont_know_why_jodi_picoult_is_belly_aching/|title=Jeffrey Eugenides: I don't Know Why Jodi Picoult Is Belly-Aching|work=salon.com|date=27 September 2012|access-date=2014-04-12}}</ref>