Collections
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Bet They’ll Miss Us When We’re Gone | 1991 | Buy |
M.K. Brown Range Life Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Life on the Texas Range | 1973 | Buy |
| Still: Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First Century | 2008 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Went South | 1980 | Buy |
| Separate Checks | 1984 | Buy |
| Herself in Love | 1987 | Buy |
| John Dollar | 1989 | Buy |
| Eveless Eden | 1995 | Buy |
| Almost Heaven | 1998 | Buy |
| Evidence of Things Unseen | 2003 | Buy |
| The Shadow Catcher | 2007 | Buy |
| Properties of Thirst | 2022 | Buy |
Marianne Wiggins is an American novelist whose career spans five decades, from her early photography work on Life on the Texas Range (1973) to her final novel Properties of Thirst (2022). She was married to Salman Rushdie from 1988 to 1993, and during that time she lived in hiding with him following the fatwa issued against him. That experience of displacement and danger left a mark on her writing, which often returns to questions of identity, loss, and survival in extreme circumstances.
Her fiction is known for its dense, poetic style and its interest in American history. Evidence of Things Unseen (2003) follows a Tennessee glassblower through the atomic age and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The Shadow Catcher (2007) blends fact and fiction around the life of photographer Edward Curtis. Her last novel, Properties of Thirst, set against the backdrop of the California water wars and Japanese American internment during World War II, was published after a long absence caused by a debilitating car accident in 2016.
Beyond her novels, Wiggins also wrote the short story collection Bet They’ll Miss Us When We’re Gone (1991) and contributed text to two photography books about Texas ranching life in the M.K. Brown Range Life series.