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Wiggins was born on November 8, 1947, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She married Brian Porzak in 1965, with whom she had one daughter. The couple divorced in 1970. [4] Wiggins lived in London for 16 years, and for brief periods in Paris, Brussels, and Rome. In January 1988, she married novelist Salman Rushdie in London.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL (/ s ʌ l ˈ m ɑː n ˈ r ʊ ʃ d i / sul-MAHN RUUSH-dee; [2] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. [3] His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent.
Sir Salman Rushdie has forfeited his home, freedom, marriage and peace of mind due to his controversial writings. ... American writer Marianne Wiggins. ... Photos from the Associated Press news ...
It also includes the story of the break-up of his relationship with his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, and the acrimonious nature of their split, and his third and fourth marriages (and break-ups) to Elizabeth West and Padma Lakshmi. Rushdie writes about his period living as "Joseph Anton" in the third rather than the first person.
Examples ranged from the rare (a family whose young daughter was abducted) to the commonplace (a couple adjusting to an elderly parent coming to live with them). Participants included well-known individuals (Marianne Wiggins, the wife of Salman Rushdie on living in hiding), as well as people outside of the public eye. [1]
Rebuilding Marianne Wiggins' novel 'Properties of Thirst' after a debilitating stroke, the author and her daughter embarked on the project of their lives. How a daughter's love and a mother's ...
The latest honor for Salman Rushdie was a prize kept secret until minutes before he rose from his seat to accept it. On Tuesday night, the author received the first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the ...
This is a list of characters in Midnight's Children, a 1981 prize-winning novel by Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children is an epic book about India's transition from British colonialism to independence. It is notable for the large number of characters, many are introduced and then reoccur much later in the narrative.