Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

" He also says he has been haunted by the decline of Detroit. Not “audience.

The Virgin Suicides has been filmed 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. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993) Middlesex (2002) and The Marriage Plot (2011).