Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger was born in South Haven, Michigan in 1963.  When she was young, her family moved to Evanston, Illinois. Throughout primary school, Niffenegger loved art and storytelling, leading her to obtain her undergraduate degree at the Art Institute of Chicago. After working as a visual artist for over a decade, she completed her Master of Fine Arts in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University in 1991. After graduate school, Niffenegger continued her artistic work, publishing hand-bound visual books that she created in small batches. She began writing The Time Traveler’s Wife in 1997 and completed the manuscript in 2001. After an initial struggle to find an agent and publisher, the novel was finally published in 2003. It has since been adapted into a movie, limited television series, and stage musical. Since the publication of her first novel, Niffenegger has written two additional novels, comics, short stories, and visual art books. She currently teaches creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her husband, cartoonist Eddie Campbell. The Time Traveler’s Wife’s sequel, The Other Husband, is scheduled for publication in 2023.