Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963, in South Haven, Michigan) is an American novelist and visual artist. She trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds an MFA from Northwestern University, and taught in the creative writing department at Columbia College Chicago.

Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife (2003), was a bestseller and was adapted for film and television. It was followed by the ghost story Her Fearful Symmetry (2009), and she also selected, illustrated and introduced the anthology Ghostly (2015). She is married to the cartoonist Eddie Campbell and lives in Chicago.