Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides as part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. He will read from his work at 7:30pm on Tuesday, September 7th in Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall. The reading is free and open to everyone.

His first novel, The Virgin Suicides (1993), about a group of boys fascinated with the suicides of five sisters, has been described as “arresting,” “hypnotic,” “tantalizing,” and “remarkable.” It has been translated into 34 languages and made into a feature film.

In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Middlesex, a comic epic about a hermaphrodite who traces her own genetic history through the history of her Greek-American family, a story that spans much of the twentieth century. Middlesex also received the WELT-Literaturpreis of Germany and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, France’s Prix Medici, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, and Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists.” The movie The Switch, currently in theaters, is based on his story “Baster,” which appeared in The New Yorker. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

For more information or to request special accommodations, contact Jack Wang at 607-274-3493 or wang@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.