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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.
- Lorraine Berry
Aug 2, 2022 · The author of Evidence of Things Unseen talks about her latest book, set in California's Owens Valley and inspired by the water crisis and the Japanese-American internment. She also shares how she recovered from a stroke and finished the novel with her daughter's help.
Aug 2, 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.
- 3 min
- Chris Vognar
“A changing American landscape is beautifully portrayed in PROPERTIES OF THIRST, a moving and gripping new novel by Marianne Wiggins. At the start of World War II, while Japanese families are relocated to Manzanar, the Rhodes family, who live on a ranch near the camp are equally uprooted by memories and circumstances.
- Paperback
- May 30, 2023
Aug 6, 2022 · Marianne Wiggins endured a massive stroke in 2016 when she was just a few chapters short of finishing "Properties Of Thirst." Her daughter, the photographer Lara Porzak, helped guide the...
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.
