| Margaux Fragoso | |
| Birth Place: | West New York, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Mandeville, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Language: | English |
| Alma Mater: | New Jersey City University Binghamton University |
| Genre: | Autobiography |
| Subjects: | --> |
| Notable Works: | Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir |
| Spouse: | Steve McGowan Tom O'Connor |
| Partners: | --> |
| Children: | 1 |
| Years Active: | 2011–17 |
Margaux Artemia Fragoso (; 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]