Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffengegger was born in South Haven, Michigan in June of 1963. She is perhaps most famous for the penning of 'The Time Traveler's Wife' which was her very first novel and then later turned into a motion picture. The book was published in 2003 and then brought to the silver screen in 2009, and was met with great reviews.
Yet Audrey considers herself more than simply a writer with a gift of weaving words and she is also an artist. She creates graphic novels, and has six of these visual novels published including 'The Spinster', 'The Three Incestuous Sisters', 'The Adventuress', and 'Spring'.
The earliest of these books dates back to 1986, and with the most recent one being published in 2006. She has also written three short stories with 'The Night Bookmobile' released in 2004 and 'Prudence: The Cautionary Tale of a Picky Eater' being published in 2006.
Audrey Niffenegger was met with such renowned acclaim for her first books and short stories that as she continued to supply novels the subsequent competition among publishers was quite fierce. Her latest book was released in 2009 and entitled 'Her Fearful Symmetry' and being that it was based on the London's Highgate Cemetery she now offers lucky guests guided tours there herself.
When not writing or working on her art, Audrey works at the Columbia College Chicago Centre for Book and Paper Arts in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA program by the way of a professor and is further on the board of the Ragdale Foundation. She joins up with fellow writers and artists that put on their own shows around Chicago in the Text 3 group that she helped found.
She is still very active in all of her endeavours often pouring her heart and soul into her work.
