Margaux Fragoso | |
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Born | April 15, 1979 West New York, New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | June 23, 2017 Mandeville, Louisiana, U.S. | (aged 38)
Language | English |
Alma mater |
New Jersey City University Binghamton University |
Genre | Autobiography |
Years active | 2011–17 |
Notable works | Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir |
Spouse | Steve McGowan Tom O'Connor |
Children | 1 |
Margaux Artemia Fragoso ( /ˈmɑːrɡoʊ frəˈɡoʊsoʊ/ MAR-goh frə-GOH-soh; April 15, 1979 – June 23, 2017) was an American author, best known for the memoir Tiger, Tiger. [1] [2]
Fragoso was born to a working-class family and grew up in Union City, New Jersey. Her father was a Puerto Rican jeweler who had a bad temper and drank heavily. Her mother, who was of Swedish, Norwegian, and Japanese descent, [3] suffered from severe mental illness, necessitating several hospitalizations. From the age of seven, Fragoso was groomed and sexually abused by a middle-aged man, given the pseudonym "Peter Curran" in her memoir "Tiger, Tiger". [4] [5]
Fragoso attended New Jersey City University and then Binghamton University, earning a Ph.D. in 2009. In 2011, she published Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir, which became a bestseller. [6]
Fragoso was married twice. With her first husband, Steve McGowan, she had a daughter. In 2010 she married her second husband, Tom O'Connor.
She died of ovarian cancer in 2017, aged 38. [7] [8] [9]
Her mother "was a mix of Norwegian, Swedish, and Japanese," Ms. Fragoso wrote in "Tiger, Tiger," who obsessively compiled scrapbooks about disasters.
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Margaux Fragoso | |
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Born | April 15, 1979 West New York, New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | June 23, 2017 Mandeville, Louisiana, U.S. | (aged 38)
Language | English |
Alma mater |
New Jersey City University Binghamton University |
Genre | Autobiography |
Years active | 2011–17 |
Notable works | Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir |
Spouse | Steve McGowan Tom O'Connor |
Children | 1 |
Margaux Artemia Fragoso ( /ˈmɑːrɡoʊ frəˈɡoʊsoʊ/ MAR-goh frə-GOH-soh; April 15, 1979 – June 23, 2017) was an American author, best known for the memoir Tiger, Tiger. [1] [2]
Fragoso was born to a working-class family and grew up in Union City, New Jersey. Her father was a Puerto Rican jeweler who had a bad temper and drank heavily. Her mother, who was of Swedish, Norwegian, and Japanese descent, [3] suffered from severe mental illness, necessitating several hospitalizations. From the age of seven, Fragoso was groomed and sexually abused by a middle-aged man, given the pseudonym "Peter Curran" in her memoir "Tiger, Tiger". [4] [5]
Fragoso attended New Jersey City University and then Binghamton University, earning a Ph.D. in 2009. In 2011, she published Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir, which became a bestseller. [6]
Fragoso was married twice. With her first husband, Steve McGowan, she had a daughter. In 2010 she married her second husband, Tom O'Connor.
She died of ovarian cancer in 2017, aged 38. [7] [8] [9]
Her mother "was a mix of Norwegian, Swedish, and Japanese," Ms. Fragoso wrote in "Tiger, Tiger," who obsessively compiled scrapbooks about disasters.
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