Audrey Niffenegger | |
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 Niffenegger in 2009 | |
| Born | June 13, 1963 South Haven, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Education | Art Institute of Chicago Northwestern University (MFA) |
| Period | 2003–present |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable awards | Inkpot Award (2019) [1] |
| Spouse | Eddie Campbell |
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Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963) is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife , published in 2003, was a bestseller.
Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in South Haven, Michigan. At the age of two, [2] she and her family moved to Evanston, Illinois, and she has since spent the majority of her life living in or close to Chicago. [3] Niffenegger started writing books when she was six years old. Niffenegger completed her undergraduate degree at the Art Institute of Chicago where she worked on becoming a visual artist. [3] After completing her undergraduate degree, she got her M.F.A at Northwestern University. [4] From 1994 to 2015, Niffenegger served on the faculty of the Creative Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago, where she co-founded the Columbia College Chicago Center for the Book and Paper Arts. [5]
Niffenegger is also the founding member of T3 or Text 3, an artist and writer's group which performs and exhibits in Chicago. She is an alumna and board member of the Ragdale Foundation. She started making books herself by using processes such as intaglio and letterpress. She also wrote many novels which were produced on an offset press. [6]
She founded Artists Book House. [7] In 2024, Niffenegger announced that the center's home would be built in the Old Irving Park neighborhood. [8]
Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife , was published in 2003 and was a bestseller. [9] A film adaptation was released in 2009. Niffenegger has no intention of watching the movie because she stated that the characters are only truly hers in the book, not in the movie. [10] Niffenegger originally conceptualized The Time Traveler's Wife as a graphic novel but realized that the time travel would be difficult to capture in visualizations. [11] In March 2009, Niffenegger sold her second novel, a literary ghost story called Her Fearful Symmetry , to Charles Scribner's Sons for an advance of $5 million. [12] The book was released on October 1, 2009 [13] and is set in London's Highgate Cemetery where, during research for the book, Niffenegger acted as a tour guide. [14] Though not as huge a commercial juggernaut as The Time Traveler's Wife, this book generally garnered more positive critical reviews and cinched Niffenegger's reputation as a leading novelist of ideas and atmosphere. [15]
Niffenegger collaborated with Wayne McGregor on a balletic fable, Raven Girl (2013), performed at the Royal Opera House in London in 2013, 2015. [16]
In 2009, she started working on a novel called The Chinchilla Girl in Exile. [17]
In 2013, it was announced that there would be a sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife [18] and in 2022 it was announced that title is The Other Husband set to be released in 2023. [18] [19] [20]
Niffenegger has degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University. [5] As an undergraduate student at the Art Institute of Chicago, Niffenegger created her own book arts major combining etching, letterpress arts and bookbinding. [4] Her first project was called The Adventuress, which she self-described as "a novel in pictures". Niffenegger's second novel in pictures was titled The Three Incestuous Sisters which she created while completing her M.F.A. at Northwestern. [5] These two novels in pictures were subsequently published by Harry N. Abrams. The Three Incestuous Sisters was published in 2005 and tells the story of three unusual sisters who live in a seaside house; the book has been compared to the work of Edward Gorey. The Adventuress was released on September 1, 2006.
The 2004 short story "The Night Bookmobile" was serialized in 2008 in "Visual Novel" format in The Guardian . [21] "The Night Bookmobile" was published on October 1, 2010, by Jonathan Cape. Niffenegger intends "The Night Bookmobile" to be the first installment in a series titled "The Library". She is working on the second installment, called "Moths of the New World", about a stolen book. [22]
Niffenegger is married to cartoonist Eddie Campbell. Niffenegger and Campbell collaborated on the visual novel Bizarre Romance to celebrate the Comics Unmasked exhibit at the British Library. [23] Niffenegger describes herself as "somewhere in the spectrum of agnosticism and atheism" and ascribes her disbelief to her Catholic background. [24]
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What are you writing now? I have started to work on a novel called The Chinchilla Girl in Exile. It is about a nine-year-old girl named Lizzie Varo who has hypertrichosis (she is covered with hair) and her desire to go to school (she's been home-schooled by her clever and amusing Aunt Mariella) and what happens when she does go to school (things get weird).
