Novelist Marianne Wiggins

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Marianne Wiggins

Living place: Pennsylvania

Birthday: 8-9-1947 (77 years old)

Population of US 1947: 144,126,071

Global rank: #73348

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Who is Novelist Marianne Wiggins?
An American author known for intrigue and unusually tall characters, she is best known for her 2003 work, Proof of the Unseen Thing, which was a finalist for both National Book Awards. and the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include John Dollar (1989), Eveless Eden (1995), and Almost Heaven (1998).
She has won the Whiting Writers Prize and the Janet HEIDINGER Kafka Prize.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She was able to support herself and her daughter through her work after publishing her 1984 work, Separate Examination.

Family life info

She is the granddaughter of a minister and the daughter of a farmer. She married her first husband at age seventeen and shortly thereafter gave birth to a daughter named Lara.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Marianne Wiggins?
She was married to her second husband and fellow writer, Salman Rushdie, for five years.

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When was Novelist Marianne Wiggins born?
Marianne Wiggins birthday 8-9-1947 (at the age of 77).
Where is Novelist Marianne Wiggins's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Marianne Wiggins was born in Pennsylvania, . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Marianne Wiggins's global rank is 73348 and whose rank is 805 in list of famous Novelist. Population of US in 1947 is about 144,126,071 persons.
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Events in 1947 and 8-9

Events in US in the birth year of Marianne Wiggins

  • Hollywood "Black List" created by HUAC.
  • Truman Doctrine proposes "containment" of communist expansion (March 12).
  • Taft-Hartley Act passed. Background: Labor Unions.
  • Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Birthday Marianne Wiggins (8-9) in history

  • Day 8-9 year 1900: A hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing about 8,000 people.
  • Day 8-9 year 1935: Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish," was shot and mortally wounded by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.
  • Day 8-9 year 1951: The San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed, formally ending World War II hostilities with Japan.
  • Day 8-9 year 1952: Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea was published.
  • Day 8-9 year 1966: Star Trek premiered on television.
  • Day 8-9 year 1974: President Gerald Ford gave former President Nixon a full pardon for all federal crimes he may have committed while he was in office.
  • Day 8-9 year 1998: Mark McGwire's 62nd home run broke Roger Maris's record of 61 homers set in 1961.
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