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Marianne Wiggins (born November 8, 1947) is an American author. 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 National Endowment for the Arts award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.
Biografia. Nata a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, nel 1947 [1], vive e lavora a Los Angeles [2] . Autrice di 3 raccolte di racconti e nove romanzi tra i quali John Dollar, rievocazione al femminile de Il signore delle mosche [3], è professoressa d'inglese alla University of Southern California [4] .
2 ago 2022 · The author of Evidence of Things Unseen talks about her latest book, a family saga set in California's Owens Valley and Manzanar, inspired by the water crisis and the Japanese-American internment. She also shares how she recovered from a stroke and finished the novel amid the pandemic.
2 ago 2022 · Rebuilding Marianne Wiggins' novel 'Properties of Thirst' after a debilitating stroke, the author and her daughter embarked on the project of their lives.
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Marianne Wiggins is the author of seven books of fiction including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen. She has won an NEA grant, the Whiting Writers' Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and she was a National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-finalist in fiction for Evidence of Things Unseen. ...more.
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2 ago 2022 · A historical novel about a California ranching family and the Japanese-American internment during World War II. Read reviews, ratings, and book details of this National Bestseller and New Yorker Best Book of 2022.
2 ago 2022 · A novel about love, loss, water rights and Japanese American internment camps in Owens Valley, California. The author, Marianne Wiggins, survived a stroke while writing it and received help from David L. Ulin and Lara Porzak.
