Audrey Niffenegger is a 21st century Renaissance woman - an exceptionally creative writer and visual artist who has achieved enormous success in both worlds. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, has sold more than seven million copies and has been translated into forty languages. A film version was released in August 2009. Her second novel, HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY, was published in 2009 and became another New York Times and international bestseller.
Niffenegger is also the author of three "novels-in-pictures," THE THREE INCESTUOUS SISTERS, THE ADVENTURESS, and THE NIGHT BOOKMOBILE. The Gothic mood of her original artwork has led some to compare it to the work ofAubrey Beardsley and Edward Gorey.
A Chicago native, Niffenegger received her MFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Northwestern University. Her art has been widely exhibited in the United States and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress and Harvard University's Houghton Library. She has remained with her original gallery,PrintWorks, for almost two decades.
She is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her most recent interdisciplinary project is a collaboration with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden on an original ballet, entitled "Raven Girl."