Marianne Wiggins (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Of Scottish and Greek ancestry, Marianne Wiggins was born to John Wiggins and Mary Klonis. Her father was a grocer and preacher. She married Brian Porzak, a film distributor, on June 6, 1965, but divorced him in 1970. They had a daughter, Lara Porzak. Wiggins’s second marriage, to the Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie on January 23, 1988, led to a few years of fame and controversy, not because of the marriage itself but for the religious edict issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini condemning Rushdie to death. Rushdie and Wiggins’s marriage ended in 1992.
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