He took his undergraduate degree at Brown University, graduating in 1983. He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish extraction.Įugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, of Greek and Irish descent. 826 Chicago 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. Let everybody else suffer." - Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is DeadĪll proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. A love story can never be about full possession. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it.
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