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]
Margaux Fragoso | |
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Born | April 15, 1979 West New York, New Jersey, United States |
Died | June 23, 2017 Mandeville, Louisiana, United States | (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 |
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, while 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, to Steve McGowan, with whom she had a daughter, and in 2010 married 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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