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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.
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- Separate Checks (1984), John Dollar (1989), Evidence of Things Unseen (2003)
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 · By Jane Ciabattari. August 2, 2022. Properties of Thirst, the new novel from Marianne Wiggins, whose Evidence of Things Unseen was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a complex, thorough, riveting novel. It’s massive in scope—an emotionally satisfying family saga, an exploration of twentieth-century roaming and taking, an insightful ...
2 ago 2022 · After award-winning author Marianne Wiggins suffered a stroke in 2016, she moved into the Venice home of her daughter, Lara Porzak. Together they worked to complete her latest novel,...
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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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Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a “big, bold book” (USA TODAY) destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American Dream.
2 ago 2022 · While working on “Properties of Thirst,” Wiggins suffered a massive stroke. She recovered and with help finished the great American novel of 2022.
