Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wiggins is the author of eight novels, including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has won a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Heidinger Kafka Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Venice, California.
Marianne Wiggins is the author of eight novels, including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has won a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Heidinger Kafka Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Venice, California. See less
Marianne Wiggins's Featured Books
Marianne Wiggins book reviews
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Eveless Eden
Curate's egg of a book
This novel is both a thriller and a love story inextricably linked to the major events that took place between 1986 and 1991: the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the downfall of the Ceausescu and ... Read More
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Almost Heaven
Highly Recommend
This is a wonderful book. It has many stylistic similarities to Evidence of Things Unseen but is much tighter. The way Wiggins uses weather to tie everything together is truly admirable. This is a ... Read More
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John Dollar
Lord of the Flies with Cannibalism
Though it is well written, this is very reminiscent of Golding's Lord of the Flies, and I do not mean that as a compliment. It is quite gory in places and though several of the cannibalism ... Read More
