

The interview was conducted by email between May and October 2020. In September 2018, Jeffrey Eugenides was a guest of the Festival America in Vincennes, France, where he kindly agreed to discuss his work with me. He has taught creative writing at both Princeton and NYU. Eugenides is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. First published in various magazines (The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, etc.), Jeffrey Eugenides’s short stories were collected in Fresh Complaint in 2017. The Marriage Plot (2011), his third novel to date, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His second novel, Middlesex (2002), was awarded the Pulitzer Price, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the French Prix Medici. It has since been translated into thirty-four languages and adapted on screen by Sofia Coppola. Jeffrey Eugenides’s debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to major critical and popular acclaim in 1993.
