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Marianne Wiggins (born September 8, 1947) is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels.〔(Barnes and Noble Writers )〕 She has won a Whiting Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.〔 == Biography == Wiggins was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her family was of Greek and Scots ancestry. Her father, a farmer, preached in a conservative Christian church founded by her grandfather. She married at 17, just after graduating from Manheim Township High School and promptly gave birth to a daughter, Lara, whom she raised in Martha's Vineyard. Lara is now a professional photographer in Los Angeles. Wiggins lived in London for 16 years and for brief stints in Paris, Brussels and Rome. She and Salman Rushdie wed in January 1988. On February 14, 1989, a journalist called Rushdie at their London home and informed him he had just been sentenced to death by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for blasphemy in his book ''The Satanic Verses'', published the year before. As a result, Wiggins went into protective hiding in Great Britain, along with Rushdie.〔Caryn James, "(Marianne Wiggins And Life on the Run )," New York Times, April 9, 1991〕 In 1993, the two divorced. “I have lived a really interesting life,” she told Pamela J. Johnson in July 2006. “I haven’t lived it so I can excavate material for my writing.” She added, “I’m a novelist. I don’t have those muscles. It’s not about me. It’s about what I’ve imagined. It’s the universal voice that I want to move forward. That’s my natural voice.”〔"Painting Words on a Canvas," (USC Interview ) July 2006〕 She currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where she has been in the English department of the University of Southern California since fall, 2005.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marianne Wiggins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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