Marianne Wiggins (born 1947) is a writer from the United States. Wiggins writes with “a robust intellect and an ear for concealed humor,” according to The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English.
She is the recipient of a Whiting Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her novel Evidence of Things Unseen was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2004.
How much does Marianne Wiggins make a year?
Wiggins’ makes over 6,123,612.
Wiggins was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on November 8, 1947. In 1965, she married Brian Porzak, with whom she had one daughter. In 1970, the couple divorced.
Wiggins spent 16 years in London, as well as brief stints in Paris, Brussels, and Rome. She married to author Salman Rushdie in London in January 1988.
Rushdie’s death was ordered by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on February 14, 1989, for suspected blasphemy in his novel, The Satanic Verses. Despite telling Rushdie only five days before that she wanted to break their marriage, Wiggins went into hiding with him. The couple divorced in 1993.
Wiggins experienced a stroke in 2016, rendering her unable to read or write. She recovered her talents and finished her
Wiggins currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where she has been in the English department of the University of Southern California since 2005.
What is Marianne Wiggins’ net worth?
She is worth 10 million as of 2022.
