Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger creates a world that’s recognizable to us as ours, but is filled with strangeness and slight changes in the rules of the universe. This is the creative philosophy that made her powerfully original first novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, a darling of critics and an international bestseller that has sold nearly three million copies worldwide.

A remarkable story of romance that follows the passionate love affair between a librarian who travels involuntarily through time and an artist who leads a regular life in the present, The Time Traveler’s Wife was brought to life on the big screen in a film starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams.

Niffenegger's latest novel, Raven Girl, is a supernatural story about a raven trapped in a human body. It follows the immense success of Her Fearful Symmetry, a story about twins who inherit an apartment near a London cemetery and become embroiled in the lives of the building’s other residents and the ghost of their aunt who left them the residence.

Known for her imaginative plots and brilliant prose, Niffenegger continues to make powerful works that charm readers and critics alike. She offers audiences an inside look at the creative process and the relationship between art and writing, and motivates us all to identify our desires, exercise our inquisitive nature, and to fully explore that which inspires us.

Currently a professor at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Audrey Niffenegger teaches writing, letterpress printing, and fine edition book production.