Pulitzer Prize Winners Visit Princeton Day School

Princeton Day School welcomed authors Jhumpa Lahiri and Jeffrey Eugenides to the McAneny Theater stage on Wednesday, October 2. 

The event, co-sponsored with the Princeton Public Library, was part of Lahiri’s tour to promote her new book, “The Lowland,” which has been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. 

Lahiri read from her new book, and was then joined onstage by Eugenides, a fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a PDS parent. 

The two authors, friends for many years, discussed the genesis for the new book as well as the context for the story, and then took some questions from the audience. 

The 400-seat theater was filled to capacity with fans of the authors. 

Labyrinth Books was on hand to sell copies of “The Lowland” to members of the audience, who were able to have their copies signed by Lahiri after the presentation.