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Audrey Niffenegger

Biography

Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives in Chicago and London. Her book art, prints and paintings are included in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Newberry Library, and the Library of Congress, among others. In 2019, she founded Artists Book House, a non-profit center for the literary and book arts. Ms. Niffenegger was also one of the founders of the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. She was a Professor at Columbia College until 2015.

Her books include the novels THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, LIFE OUT OF ORDER and HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY, as well as the graphic novels RAVEN GIRL, THE NIGHT BOOKMOBILE and BIZARRE ROMANCE (with Eddie Campbell). THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE has been adapted into a film, an HBO television series, and a West End stage musical. Other adaptations include a ballet of RAVEN GIRL, which was created by the choreographer Wayne McGregor in 2013 for the Royal Opera House Ballet.

Audrey Niffenegger

Books by Audrey Niffenegger

by Audrey Niffenegger - Fiction, Magical Realism

Alba DeTamble has never lived a life in order. Born with the same rare Chrono-Displacement Disorder as her father, Henry, she slips unpredictably through decades, haunted by the secrets of a future she can witness but cannot change. As Alba strives to maintain a normal life with Zach, her safe, supportive anchor, she forms a tight-knit community of artists and activists who fight to take care of each other in an increasingly unstable world. LIFE OUT OF ORDER takes readers from the riot-torn streets of a dystopian Chicago to a digital museum for forgotten memories and lost artifacts. Curating this ever-expanding museum is Isadora, Alba’s mysterious stepsister and an unsettling presence in their family --- whose fate may be intertwined with Alba’s in more dangerous ways than she knows.

introduced and illustrated by Audrey Niffenegger - Fiction, Horror, Short Stories

From Edgar Allan Poe to Kelly Link, M. R. James to Neil Gaiman, H.H. Munro to Audrey Niffenegger herself, GHOSTLY spans the whole history of the ghost story genre from gothic horror to the modern era. Each story is introduced by Niffenegger, with short original commentary and background on why she chose to include it. Also included is her own story, “A Secret Life with Cats.”

by Audrey Niffenegger

Raven Girl began as a challenge from Wayne McGregor, the choreographer of the Royal Ballet in London. He asked Niffenegger to come up with a new fairy tale that he would choreograph a dance to; she complied, and this mesmerizing illustrated book is the result.

written by Audrey Niffenegger, read by William Hope and Laurel Lefkow - Fiction

This bestselling and innovative debut novel from Audrey Niffenegger explores the perfect marriage, one that is tested by challenges the couple can neither control nor predict. An imaginative extension of everyday life, the story asks: What if two people who loved each other deeply, married, and faced a life in which one person remained constant while the other slipped fluidly in and out of time?

by Audrey Niffenegger - Fiction

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap.