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The Time Traveler's Wife Author Biography

Born June 13, 1963, Audrey Niffenegger spent her childhood writing and imagining in Evanston, Illinois. She earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1985 and her master of fine arts from Northwestern University in 1991. While writing The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger lived in Chicago and taught writing, letterpress printing, and fine edition book production at the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her fiction has been published in Bust, The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry, and Electronic Book Review, while her visual art can be found in the collections of the Newberry Library, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Library of Congress, the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and Temple University, among others.

In writing The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger received several fellowships including a...
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