20 Facts About Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger was born on June 13,1963 and is an American writer, artist, and academic.

Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, published in 2003, was a bestseller.

Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in South Haven, Michigan.

Audrey Niffenegger completed her undergraduate degree at the Art Institute of Chicago where she worked on becoming a visual artist.

From 1994 to 2015, Audrey 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.

Audrey Niffenegger is the founding member of T3 or Text 3, an artist and writer's group which performs and exhibits in Chicago.

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

Audrey Niffenegger started making books herself by using processes such as intaglio and letterpress.

Audrey Niffenegger wrote many novels which were produced on an offset press.

In 2024, Audrey Niffenegger announced that the center's home would be built in the Old Irving Park neighborhood.

Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, was published in 2003 and was a bestseller.

Audrey 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.

Audrey 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.

In March 2009, Audrey Niffenegger sold her second novel, a literary ghost story called 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, Audrey Niffenegger acted as a tour guide.

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

Audrey Niffenegger has degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University.

Audrey Niffenegger intends "The Night Bookmobile" to be the first installment in a series titled "The Library".

Audrey Niffenegger is working on the second installment, called "Moths of the New World", about a stolen book.

Audrey Niffenegger describes herself as "somewhere in the spectrum of agnosticism and atheism" and ascribes her disbelief to her Catholic background.