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Audrey Niffenegger

Writer/ artist

Audrey Niffenegger is an American artist and author. She trained as a visual artist at the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from Northwestern University. She has exhibited artworks, drawings and comics at the Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1987.

The Time Traveller's Wife
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In 1997 Niffenegger had an idea for a graphic novel about a time traveller, but eventually realised she could not visually depict her character’s sudden shifts in time with still images - so she began the project as a novel - and published in 2003. It quickly became an international bestseller and was made into a . Her book offers a new perspective on time travel: time travel as a genetic disorder.

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