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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.
Aug 2, 2022 · Rebuilding Marianne Wiggins' novel 'Properties of Thirst' after a debilitating stroke, the author and her daughter embarked on the project of their lives.
Aug 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 glimpse into the filming of early ...
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.
Marianne Wiggins has 16 books on Goodreads with 53231 ratings. Marianne Wiggins’s most popular book is Properties of Thirst.
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.
Aug 2, 2022 · Marianne Wiggins. Photo by Lara Porzak. As compelling as Marianne Wiggins’ novel Properties of Thirst (Simon & Schuster, Aug. 2) is, the story behind its completion may be even more so.
