Marianne Wiggins
| Marianne Wiggins | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 8, 1947 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | novels |
| Notable works |
Separate Checks (1984) John Dollar (1989) Evidence of Things Unseen (2003) |
| Notable awards |
Whiting Award NEA Award Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize |
| Spouse | Salman Rushdie (1988; div. 1993) |
| Children | 1 |
Marianne Wiggins (born September 8, 1947) is an award-winning American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, Wiggins writes with "a bold intelligence and an ear for hidden comedy." She has won a Whiting Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2004 for her novel Evidence of Things Unseen.
Wiggins was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her family was of Greek and Scots ancestry. Her father, a farmer, preached in a conservative Christian church founded by her grandfather. She married at 17, just after graduating from Manheim Township High School, and gave birth to a daughter, Lara, whom she raised in Martha's Vineyard. Lara is now a renowned photographer in Los Angeles.
“I have lived a really interesting life,” she told Pamela J. Johnson in July 2006. “I haven’t lived it so I can excavate material for my writing.” She added, “I’m a novelist. I don’t have those muscles. It’s not about me. It’s about what I’ve imagined. It’s the universal voice that I want to move forward. That’s my natural voice.”
Wiggins lived in London for 16 years, and for brief periods in Paris, Brussels and Rome.
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