Marianne Wiggins

Marianne Wiggins is an award-winning American novelist celebrated for her richly layered prose and expansive historical imagination. Her novel "Evidence of Things Unseen" was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, cementing her place among America's foremost literary voices. Her sweeping novel "Properties of Thirst", published decades in the making, explores the American West, water rights, and the Japanese American internment during World War II. A former partner of Salman Rushdie, Wiggins draws on a life of bold choices and wide travel to craft stories of extraordinary depth, moral complexity, and luminous humanity.