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Marianne Wiggins

Marianne Wiggins
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Marianne Wiggins

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 finalist in fiction for Evidence of Things Unseen.

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Aug 31, 2012
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On Line Opinion, January 15, 2013
...ever is so harsh on himself!) It's true that the reported behaviour particularly of his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, is hard to justify, but still, it seems to me, it would have been better left to one side or at least not explored in as much detail. ...
The Australian, January 6, 2013
...all these years, after his immense concern for her during her illness ... " As for his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, the American novelist to whom he was still just about married when the fatwa was declared, the contempt steams off the page. She lied...
Time Out Mumbai, December 27, 2012
...be blasphemous and calling for the assassination of Rushdie. Within days, Rushdie and his then-wife, the American writer Marianne Wiggins, were spirited away from their Islington home and into the care of a Special Branch protection squad, with whom...
The Scotsman, December 16, 2012
...grew from a nine-year-old boy into a young man of 19. His second marriage, to the American novelist Marianne Wiggins, ended and, his third, to Elizabeth West, began. They have a son, Milan, who was born in 1999. In 2004 Rushdie married Indian American...
Times Live South Africa, December 11, 2012
...intact, it is Rushdie himself who comes off worst - with the sole exception of his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, who is portrayed as something of a lunatic almost from the start. The problem is that Rushdie insinuates that flaws in his personality are...
New York Review of Books, November 29, 2012
...nagging, their jealousy of his talent, and so on—are not so readily excused. In a close-run contest between Marianne Wiggins (number two) and Padma Lakshmi (number four), it is the latter who emerges as the worst of the spousal bunch. Rushdie presents...
Camden New Journal, November 22, 2012
...publishers of his highly controversial tome The Satanic Verses. On that same tragic day his American novelist wife Marianne Wiggins announced that their year-old marriage had been a mistake. The fatwa sent Rushdie into permanent hiding from his home...
The Nation, January 17, 2013
...Anis, a powerful presence in his life, had died. He had divorced Luard and married the American novelist Marianne Wiggins, but already he was not getting on with her and thinking of a separation. It was in the context of this personal turmoil that The...
On Line Opinion, January 15, 2013
...ever is so harsh on himself!) It's true that the reported behaviour particularly of his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, is hard to justify, but still, it seems to me, it would have been better left to one side or at least not explored in as much detail. ...
The Australian, January 6, 2013
...all these years, after his immense concern for her during her illness ... " As for his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, the American novelist to whom he was still just about married when the fatwa was declared, the contempt steams off the page. She lied...
The Australian, January 4, 2013
...all these years, after his immense concern for her during her illness ... " As for his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, the American novelist to whom he was still just about married when the fatwa was declared, the contempt steams off the page. She lied...
Time Out Mumbai, December 27, 2012
...be blasphemous and calling for the assassination of Rushdie. Within days, Rushdie and his then-wife, the American writer Marianne Wiggins, were spirited away from their Islington home and into the care of a Special Branch protection squad, with whom...
The Scotsman, December 16, 2012
...grew from a nine-year-old boy into a young man of 19. His second marriage, to the American novelist Marianne Wiggins, ended and, his third, to Elizabeth West, began. They have a son, Milan, who was born in 1999. In 2004 Rushdie married Indian American...
Times Live South Africa, December 11, 2012
...intact, it is Rushdie himself who comes off worst - with the sole exception of his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, who is portrayed as something of a lunatic almost from the start. The problem is that Rushdie insinuates that flaws in his personality are...