Marianne Wiggins

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Female

Born Sep 8, 1947

Age 65

Hometown Lancaster, Pennsy...

Marianne Wiggins is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won the Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.

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the 54th National Book Awards. Marriott Marquis , New York City. 11/19/2003 Photo by: Andrea Rena...

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Salman Rushdie
Dated 1988 - 1993

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David Finkle: Easy Reader: Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton A Hitman Target Hit
Huffington Post - Oct 15, 2012

Although I've been reading and reviewing books for several decades, not until Salman Rushdie's memoir, Joseph Anton (Random House, 636pp, $30), have I realized how some part of me continues to look at books through callow eyes, to assess them naively. I admit this freely, because when I read The Satanic Verses I considered it a work of great depth. That's, of course, the Rushdie novel that brought about Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini's notorious fatwa on Valentine's day, 1989. I...
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John Dollar Npr
Google News - Jul 27, 2011

Young widowed Charlotte Lewes leaves World War I England for Burma, falls in love with sailor John Dollar, and becomes marooned with him—and eight children—on a remote island. One can only hope that Marianne Wiggins' John Dollar
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Against All Odds: 3 Triumphant Tales Of Survival Npr
Google News - Jul 20, 2011

His eventual triumph, so hard-won, is a triumph for us all. by Marianne Wiggins One can only hope that Marianne Wiggins' John Dollar isn't based on a true story. Well-characterized by one prominent critic as the sort of descent into hell so
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Browsing Books; Paperback Row
NYTimes - Aug 03, 2008

LEVIATHAN: The History of Whaling in America, by Eric Jay Dolan. (Norton, $15.95.) ''Much of America's culture, economy and in fact its spirit were literally and figuratively rendered from the bodies of whales,'' Dolan writes in this exhaustive, richly detailed history of one of America's strangest industries. Colonists looked for whales on the
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CHILDHOOD

1947 Birth Born in 1947.

FORTIES

1988 41 Years Old She and Salman Rushdie wed in January 1988. … Read More

1989 42 Years Old Wiggins won a Whiting Writer's Award in 1989. … Read More

1993 46 Years Old In 1993, the two divorced.

FIFTIES

2003 56 Years Old She was a National Book Award Finalist in 2003 for Evidence of Things Unseen.

2006 59 Years Old “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. … Read More

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