Marianne Wiggins





Marianne Wiggins

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born
Lancaster, PA, The United States
gender
female


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Marianne Wiggins is the author of seven books of fiction including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen. She has won an NEA grant, the Whiting Writers' Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and she was a National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-finalist in fiction for Evidence of Things Unseen.


Average rating: 3.83 · 2,483 ratings · 617 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors
Evidence of Things Unseen
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,285 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
The Shadow Catcher
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 715 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
John Dollar
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions
Almost Heaven
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
Eveless Eden
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
Herself In Love
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions
Separate Checks
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
Bet They'll Miss Us When We...
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
Babe
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1975
Das Paradies schwarzweiß
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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“You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.”
Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

“Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.”
Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen

“...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.”
Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

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