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. Then she moved to Evanston, Illinois and has since spent a majority of her life in Chicago.[1] 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.[1] After completing her undergraduate degree, she got her M.F.A at Northwestern University.[2] Niffenegger is currently a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, where she co-founded the Columbia College Chicago Center for the Book and Paper Arts.[3] Niffenegger is also the founding member of T3 or Text 3, an artist and writer's group which also 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.[4]
Novels
Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, was published in 2003 and was a bestseller.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8] The book was released on October 1, 2009[9] and is set in London's Highgate Cemetery where, during research for the book, Niffenegger acted as a tour guide.[10] 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.[11]
Niffenegger collaborated with Wayne McGregor on a balletic fable, Raven Girl (2013), performed at the Royal Opera House in London in 2013, 2015.[12]
In 2009, she started working on a novel called The Chinchilla Girl in Exile.[13]
As of 2022 it is announced that she is working on a sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife called The Other Husband.[14][15]
Visual books
Niffenegger has degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University.[3] As an undergraduate student at the Art Institute of Chicago, Niffenegger created her own book arts major combining etching, letterpress arts and bookbinding.[2] 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.[3] 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.[16] "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.[17]
Personal life
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.[18] Niffenegger describes herself as "somewhere in the spectrum of agnosticism and atheism" and ascribes her disbelief to her Catholic background.[19]
Bibliography
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Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger (2013), with Susan Fisher Sterling and Mark Pascale
Anthologies
Ghostly : A Collection of Ghost Stories (Scribner, 2015) ISBN9781501111198 An anthology selected and illustrated by Audrey Niffenegger. She also wrote the introduction.
Books Foreworded by Niffenegger
The Art of Neil Gaiman (with Hayley Campbell, Neil Gaiman)
Classic Penguin : Cover to Cover ( Paul Buckley)
Mr. Wrong : Real-Life Stories about the Men We Used to Love (Jacquelyn Mitchard, Harriet Brown, et al.)
^ ab"Audrey Niffenegger | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
^ abWatson, Sasha (August 9, 2010). "Prose to Graphic Novel: Audrey Niffenegger & Diane Gabaldon Make the Leap". Publishers Weekly. 257 (32): 27. ProQuest 745196706.
^ abcde"Prose to Graphic Novel: Audrey Niffenegger & Diana Gabaldon Make the Leap". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
^Wassserman, Krystyna (2011). The Book as Art; Artists's Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. p. 12. ISBN978-1-56898-992-1.
^Cavna, Michael (March 29, 2018). "How a Best Selling Wife and Husband Enchant Readers in the Anthology Bizarre Romance". Washington Post.
^Motoko Rich (March 11, 2009). "Audrey Niffenegger Receives $5 Million Advance for Second Novel". The New York Times. pp. C2. Retrieved July 9, 2013. Six years after the publication of her best-selling novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger sold a new manuscript for almost $5 million, according to people with knowledge of the negotiations. It is an especially significant sum at a time of retrenchment and economic uncertainty in the publishing world. After a fiercely contested auction, Scribner, a unit of Simon & Schuster, bought the rights to publish the new novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, in the United States this fall.
^Allfree, Claire (October 1, 2009). "Niffenegger goes on a timely journey". Metro. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
^Niffenegger, Audrey (October 3, 2009). "Audrey Niffenegger on Highgate Cemetery". The Guardian. London. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
^Cokal, Susann (September 25, 2009). "Book Review | 'Her Fearful Symmetry,' by Audrey Niffenegger". The New York Times.
^Audrey Niffenegger. . Archived from the original on May 7, 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2015. 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).
^Niffenegger, Audrey (August 4, 2008). "31.05.2008: The Night Bookmobile". The Guardian. London.
^Niffenegger, Audrey (April 29, 2014). "Novelists do comics: Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
^ abAudrey Niffenegger – biography, plus book reviews & excerpts
External links
Wikiquote has quotations related to Audrey Niffenegger.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Audrey Niffenegger.
Official website
Interview with Audrey Niffenegger, December 2008
Works by or about Audrey Niffenegger in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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 on Meet The Writers, Monocle 24 talking to Georgina Godwin
Two-part interview conducted by Henk de Berg (2019) on Niffenegger's career, "The Time Traveler's Wife" and its sequel, "The Other Husband": part 1 part 2
January 24, 2023
audrey, niffenegger, born, june, 1963, american, writer, artist, academic, debut, novel, time, traveler, wife, published, 2003, bestseller, niffenegger, 2009born, 1963, june, 1963, south, haven, michigan, occupationnovelist, artist, academicperiod2003, present. 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 NiffeneggerNiffenegger in 2009Born 1963 06 13 June 13 1963 age 59 South Haven Michigan U S OccupationNovelist artist academicPeriod2003 presentGenreFictionSpouseEddie CampbellAudrey Niffenegger s voice source source source Recorded July 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme BookclubWebsiteaudreyniffenegger wbr com Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Novels 1 2 Visual books 2 Personal life 3 Bibliography 3 1 Novels 3 2 Short stories 3 3 Comics 3 4 Artist s books 3 5 Non fiction 3 6 Anthologies 3 7 Books Foreworded by Niffenegger 4 Adaptations 5 References 6 External linksBiography EditAudrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in South Haven Michigan Then she moved to Evanston Illinois and has since spent a majority of her life in Chicago 1 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 1 After completing her undergraduate degree she got her M F A at Northwestern University 2 Niffenegger is currently a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago where she co founded the Columbia College Chicago Center for the Book and Paper Arts 3 Niffenegger is also the founding member of T3 or Text 3 an artist and writer s group which also 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 4 Novels Edit Niffenegger s debut novel The Time Traveler s Wife was published in 2003 and was a bestseller 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 The book was released on October 1 2009 9 and is set in London s Highgate Cemetery where during research for the book Niffenegger acted as a tour guide 10 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 11 Niffenegger collaborated with Wayne McGregor on a balletic fable Raven Girl 2013 performed at the Royal Opera House in London in 2013 2015 12 In 2009 she started working on a novel called The Chinchilla Girl in Exile 13 As of 2022 it is announced that she is working on a sequel to The Time Traveler s Wife called The Other Husband 14 15 Visual books Edit Niffenegger has degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University 3 As an undergraduate student at the Art Institute of Chicago Niffenegger created her own book arts major combining etching letterpress arts and bookbinding 2 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 3 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 16 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 17 Personal life EditNiffenegger 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 18 Niffenegger describes herself as somewhere in the spectrum of agnosticism and atheism and ascribes her disbelief to her Catholic background 19 Bibliography EditThis article lacks ISBNs for the books listed in it Please make it easier to conduct research by listing ISBNs If the Cite book or Citation templates are in use you may add ISBNs automatically or discuss this issue on the talk page April 2015 Novels Edit The Time Traveler s Wife 2003 Her Fearful Symmetry 2009 Raven Girl 2013 The Other Husband to be published in 2023 20 Short stories Edit Jakob Wywialowski and the Angels 2004 Prudence The Cautionary Tale of a Picky Eater in the book Poisonous Plants at Table 2006 Comics Edit The Night Bookmobile 2008 21 Bizarre Romance with Eddie Campbell Abrams 2018 22 Artist s books Edit Visual books The Adventuress 1985 3 The Spinster 1986 Aberrant Abecedarium 1986 The Murderer 23 Spring 1994 23 The Three Incestuous Sisters 2005 3 Non fiction Edit Awake in the Dream World The Art of Audrey Niffenegger 2013 with Susan Fisher Sterling and Mark PascaleAnthologies Edit Ghostly A Collection of Ghost Stories Scribner 2015 ISBN 9781501111198 An anthology selected and illustrated by Audrey Niffenegger She also wrote the introduction Books Foreworded by Niffenegger Edit The Art of Neil Gaiman with Hayley Campbell Neil Gaiman Classic Penguin Cover to Cover Paul Buckley Mr Wrong Real Life Stories about the Men We Used to Love Jacquelyn Mitchard Harriet Brown et al Adaptations EditThe Time Traveler s Wife 2009 film directed by Robert Schwentke based on novel The Time Traveler s Wife The Time Traveler s Wife 2022 series directed by David Nutter based on novel The Time Traveler s WifeReferences Edit a b Audrey Niffenegger Penguin Random House PenguinRandomhouse com Retrieved March 28 2019 a b Watson Sasha August 9 2010 Prose to Graphic Novel Audrey Niffenegger amp Diane Gabaldon Make the Leap Publishers Weekly 257 32 27 ProQuest 745196706 a b c d e Prose to Graphic Novel Audrey Niffenegger amp Diana Gabaldon Make the Leap PublishersWeekly com Retrieved March 8 2019 Wassserman Krystyna 2011 The Book as Art Artists s Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Princeton Architectural Press p 12 ISBN 978 1 56898 992 1 Niffenegger Audrey Ghostly Penguin Books Ltd Holt Emily October 13 2009 Ghost Writer WWD Women s Wear Daily Los Angeles 198 78 4 ProQuest 231220480 Cavna Michael March 29 2018 How a Best Selling Wife and Husband Enchant Readers in the Anthology Bizarre Romance Washington Post Motoko Rich March 11 2009 Audrey Niffenegger Receives 5 Million Advance for Second Novel The New York Times pp C2 Retrieved July 9 2013 Six years after the publication of her best selling novel The Time Traveler s Wife Audrey Niffenegger sold a new manuscript for almost 5 million according to people with knowledge of the negotiations It is an especially significant sum at a time of retrenchment and economic uncertainty in the publishing world After a fiercely contested auction Scribner a unit of Simon amp Schuster bought the rights to publish the new novel Her Fearful Symmetry in the United States this fall Allfree Claire October 1 2009 Niffenegger goes on a timely journey Metro Retrieved October 3 2009 Niffenegger Audrey October 3 2009 Audrey Niffenegger on Highgate Cemetery The Guardian London Retrieved October 3 2009 Cokal Susann September 25 2009 Book Review Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger The New York Times Raven Girl Productions Royal Opera House Audrey Niffenegger Official Website FAQs Archived from the original on May 7 2013 Retrieved 29 March 2015 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 Audrey Niffenegger Author Stands Behind HBO s Controversial Adaptation of The Time Traveler s Wife Forbes The Night Bookmobile Books The Guardian London July 21 2008 Retrieved July 9 2013 Bookslut An Interview with Audrey Niffenegger www bookslut com Retrieved March 8 2019 Bizarre Romance Mr Death s Ephemeral Pageant Retrieved March 28 2019 Soriano Cesar G October 5 2009 Niffenegger finds Symmetry in death for second novel USA Today Retrieved October 7 2009 https twitter com AANiffenegger status 1532052957922992129 t h 1xHetPyAmfcVPvUQPodQ amp s 19 Niffenegger Audrey August 4 2008 31 05 2008 The Night Bookmobile The Guardian London Niffenegger Audrey April 29 2014 Novelists do comics Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved March 8 2019 a b Audrey Niffenegger biography plus book reviews amp excerptsExternal links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Audrey Niffenegger Wikimedia Commons has media related to Audrey Niffenegger Official 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 IMDb 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 Audrey Niffenegger on Meet The Writers Monocle 24 talking to Georgina Godwin Two part interview conducted by Henk de Berg 2019 on Niffenegger s career The Time Traveler s Wife and its sequel The Other Husband part 1 part 2 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Audrey Niffenegger amp oldid 1132501854, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
