1. Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Title: The Time Traveler’s Wife
2. What made you interested in this author?
The first aspect that pulled me into this author was the fact that she was not only an author but also a visual artist. I am very interesting in the arts, which includes visual art. I felt that I had something in common with the artist in that we both share the love for visual art. She started writing and drawing when she was young and I too enjoyed art from a young age always wanting to be more and more creative. When reading a book it is a great feeling knowing that you can connect with either a character in the novel or even the author.
3. Brief Background of the AuthorAudrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 and spent her childhoodgrowing up in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She found interest in writing and drawing at a young age and as a child would write her own stories and create pictures to go along with them. She had an interest in Patti Smith and still enjoys seeing punk bands perform live in her hometown. Audrey Niffenegger received a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Northwestern University. She then became a Professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her first book, The Time Traveler’s Wife, was written in 2003.
4. Other published works and genres
This author, Audrey Niffenegger, wrote and had published four novels in her life so far. The Spinster, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Three Incestuous Sisters, and Her Fearful Symmetry. For her first novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, she won Popular fiction award, Sainsbury, 2006, for best novel. This novel was also made into a motion picture in 2009.
5. Information on particular places, time periods, events of influence or interests to your author
Audrey Niffenegger really enjoys watching punk bands play live in her home city of Chicago, and this is where her most recent novel is set. Her book setting aren’t all modern settings so she enjoys changing up the time period and where the characters in the book are from.
6. Themes favored by the author
In her novels written, Audrey Niffenegger has one main theme that is most prominent in all, the theme of love. She enjoys using different types of love and exploring how love can change and create different stories. Romance novels are very popular and she makes them unique. For example, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is a common love story between two characters, but she changes it by have one of them a time traveler and not always in the present time with his lover.
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