Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger in 2009
Born	(1963-06-13) June 13, 1963 South Haven, Michigan, United States
Occupation	Novelist, artist
Nationality	American
Period	2003–present
Genre	Fiction
Website
www.audreyniffenegger.com

Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963) is an American writer, artist and academic.

Career

Writing

Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, was published in 2003. A film adaptation was released in 2009.

She has written a graphic novel, or "novel in pictures" as Niffenegger calls it, called The Three Incestuous Sisters. This book tells the story of three unusual sisters who live in a seaside house. The book has been compared to the work of Edward Gorey.

Another graphic novel, The Adventuress, was released on September 1, 2006.

The 2004 short story 'The Night Bookmobile' was serialised in 2008 in 'Visual Novel' format in The Guardian.

In March 2009, Niffenegger sold her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, to Charles Scribner's Sons for an advance of $5 million. The book was released on October 1, 2009 and is set in London's Highgate Cemetery where, during research for the book, Niffenegger acted as a tour guide.

Niffenegger collaborated with Wayne McGregor on a balletic fable, Raven Girl (2013), performed at the Royal Opera House in London in 2013, 2015.

She is currently working on a novel called The Chinchilla Girl in Exile.

Art and academia

She is a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. She is the founding member of T3 or Text 3, an artist and writer's group that also performs and exhibits in Chicago.

Niffenegger is an alumna and board member of the Ragdale Foundation.

She described herself as "somewhere in the spectrum of agnosticism and atheism" and ascribed her disbelief to her Catholic background.

Bibliography

Visual books

• The Spinster (1986)
• Aberrant Abecedarium (1986)
• The Murderer
• Spring

Novels

• The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)
• Her Fearful Symmetry (2009)
• Raven Girl (2013)

Graphic novels

• The Three Incestuous Sisters (2005)
• The Adventuress (2006)
• The Night Bookmobile (2008)

Short stories

• "Jakob Wywialowski and the Angels" (2004)
• "Prudence: The Cautionary Tale of a Picky Eater" in the book Poisonous Plants at Table (2006)

External links

• Audrey Niffenegger, Her Site, Audrey Niffenegger's website
• Interview with Audrey Niffenegger, December 2008
• Works by or about Audrey Niffenegger in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Printworks Gallery, Art gallery representing Audrey Niffenegger
• Audrey Niffenegger at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Writer Unboxed 3/06 about craft, the process of writing and editing, Time Traveler's Wife, The Three Incestuous Sisters, Her Fearful Symmetry, more.
• Feature-length radio interview on KGNU with Claudia Cragg discussing 'Her Fearful Symmetry'
• Audrey Niffenegger Papers at Newberry Library