claim: Salman Rushdie wrote a novel published in the eighties.
evidence: Margaret Howe may refer to  :. Margaret Howe -LRB- squash player -RRB- -LRB- 1897 -- 1989 -RRB- , American squash player. Margaret Howe -LRB- athlete -RRB- -LRB- born 1958 -RRB- , Canadian sprinter. Margaretta Brucker -LRB- pseudonym Margaret Howe -RRB- , American fiction author. Margaretta Brucker. Margaretta Brucker. Margaret Vale -LRB- married name Howe ; born 1878 -RRB- , American actress and feminist. Margaret Vale. Margaret Vale