By Robert Allen PapinchakĪccording to the ten stunning short stories in Jeffrey Eugenides’s collection of old and new stories, Fresh Complaint, life is full of ifs, along with a variety of laments and complaints.
In January 2008 he published an anthology, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro, the proceeds of which go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago which is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pp. Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American Academy in Berlin.Īfter spending some time in Berlin, Eugenides now lives in New Jersey with his wifeĪnd daughter where he is on the faculty of Princeton University's Program inĬreative Writing. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy ofĪrts and Letters. Recipient of many awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheimįoundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers'Īward, and the Henry D. Review, and Granta's "Best of Young AmericanĮugenides received The Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex (2002). Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg
Has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Translated into fifteen languages and made into a feature film. Virgin Suicides, was published to acclaim in 1993. in English andĬreative Writing from Stanford University in 1986. Magna cum laude from Brown University, and received an M.A. Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1960.
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