By Staff
Tickets are now available for the Jeffrey Eugenides lecture at the new Dowagiac Middle School on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m.
The lecture is sponsored by the Dogwood Fine Arts Festival.
Tickets for Eugenides's lecture are available by phoning Rich and Teri Frantz at 269/782-8070 or the Dogwood Headquarters at 269/782-1115 .
Tickets cost $25 for the main floor, $20 for the balcony and $60 for the private reception.
Eugenides - winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "Middlesex," was born in Detroit in 1960, the third son of an American-born father whose Greek parents immigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent.
Eugenides was educated at public and private schools, graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and received a master of arts degree in English and creative writing from Stanford University in 1986.
Two years later, in 1988, he published his first short story.
His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review and Granta's Best of Young American Novelists'. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993, and has since been translated into 15 languages and made into a major motion picture.
Eugenides is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Foundation for the Arts, a Whiting Writers' Award and the Harold D. Vursell Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Eugenides lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.
Eugenides's lecture is the most recent in a long list of Dogwood lectures by prestigious writers including, among many others, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Amy Tan, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates.
To find out more about the Dogwood Festival visit www.dogwoodfinearts.org.