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Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in the idyllic hamlet of South Haven, Michigan. Her family moved to Evanston, Illinois when she was little; she has lived in or near Chicago for most of her life.
Audrey trained as a visual artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received her MFA from Northwestern University's Department of Art Theory and Practice in 1991. She has exhibited her artist's books, prints, paintings, drawings and comics at Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1987.
Her first books were printed and bound by hand in editions of ten. Two of these have since been commercially published by Harry N. Abrams: The Adventuress and The Three Incestuous Sisters.
In 1997 Audrey had an idea for a book about a time traveler and his wife. She originally imagined making it as a graphic novel, but eventually realised that it is very difficult to represent sudden time shifts with still images. She began to work on the project as a novel, and published The Time Traveler's Wife in 2003 with the independent publisher MacAdam/Cage. It was an international best seller, and has since been made into a movie.
Audrey's second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, was published in 2009. In 2008 she made a serialised graphic novel for the London Guardian, The Night Bookmobile, which was published in book form in September, 2010. She is currently working on her third novel, The Chinchilla Girl in Exile.
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