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.