Jeffrey Eugenides
Biography
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeffrey Eugenides, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as self
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Wake Guest
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
Movie - 2000, 2h 15m • as Self
While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, was there to document the experience.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Self - Writer
An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjelica Huston.