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 has been brought to life on the big screen, starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams.

Niffenegger’s latest book, Her Fearful Symmetry, is a supernatural 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’s powerful work continues to charm readers and critics alike. She offers audiences an inside look at the creative process, 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, Niffenegger teaches writing, letterpress printing, and fine edition book production.