February 27: Jeffrey Eugenides @ University of Portland | FREE, All Ages, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of ‘Middlesex’
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From press release:
Jeffrey Eugenides
Monday, February 27
7:30 p.m. | FREE | All Ages
@ Buckley Center Auditorium, UP Campus, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
Renowned author Jeffrey Eugenides, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for his book Middlesex, will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27, in Buckley Center Auditorium on the University of Portland campus, 5000 North Willamette Blvd. His talk, which is part of the Schoenfeldt Visiting Writers series, is free and open to the public. He will be talking about his new highly acclaimed novel, The Marriage Plot.
Eugenides was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1960. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, and received a master's degree in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to acclaim in 1993. It has been translated into 15 languages and made into a feature film. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta’s ¬Å“Best of Young American Novelists.¬Â
