Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author who has written short stories, essays, and novels. His debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993 and later adapted into a 1999 film of the same name. Eugenides' second novel, Middlesex, published in 2002, became his most acclaimed work to date. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003 and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis. His third novel, The Marriage Plot, was published in 2011. Throughout his career, Eugenides has established himself as a significant voice in contemporary American fiction.