Books by Melanie Wiggins

Melanie Wiggins was prompted to write her first book, They Made Their Own Law: Stories of Bolivar Peninsula, in 1990 while managing family marshlands in a remote area of the Texas coast. Her interest in local history and a visit to the site of the Hitchcock Naval Air Station inspired her second work, Torpedoes in the Gulf: Galveston and the U-Boats, 1942-1943. During her research for that project, she met a number of U-boat veterans in Germany who offered records, diaries, and photographs of their submarine patrols outside the Gulf of Mexico, and her fascination with their stories led to this book. Born in Forth Smith, Arkansas, Wiggins graduated from Hollins College in Virginia. She lives in League City, Texas.