Niffenegger, Audrey
Entry updated 26 October 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1963- ) US artist and author whose first full-length prose fiction, The Time-Traveler's Wife (2003), which was filmed as The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) and later made into a Television series as The Time Traveler's Wife (2022 6 episodes) by showrunner Steven Moffat, carries its protagonist willy-nilly through a number of Timeslips caused by a genetic condition called Chrono-Displacement (see Imaginary Science); during the course of these sometimes dangerous displacements he falls in love with the soon-to-be eponymous teenage heiress, and she with him; in the end, they discover that their daughter Alba is also capable of Time Travel, and as an adult, in the long-delayed sequel Life Out of Order (2026), proves more adept with her skill than her parents. This does not save her from difficult life-transactions in a deteriorating very Near-Future world, some scenes being set in a crisis-ridden America.
Of Niffenegger's Graphic Novels, The Adventuress (graph 2005) and The Night Bookmobile (graph 2010) are fantasy. Her Fearful Symmetry (2009), a fantasy set in London, is a complex ghost story involving Doppelgangers. Bizarre Romance (coll 2018) with Eddie Campbell assembles short stories, some couched in pictorial form by Campbell; most of the tales are fantasy. Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories (anth 2015) is adroitly assembled. [JC]
Audrey Anne Niffenegger
born South Haven, Michigan: 13 June 1963
works (selected)
series
The Time-Traveler's Wife
- The Time-Traveler's Wife (San Francisco, California: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2003) [The Time-Traveler's Wife: hb/Tim Heatherington]
- Life Out of Order (New York: Hanover Square Press, 2026) [The Time-Traveler's Wife: hb/]
individual titles
- The Three Incestuous Sisters (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: Harry N Abrams, 2005) [graphic novel: illus/hb/Audrey Niffenegger]
- The Adventuress (New York: Harry N Abrams, 2006) [graph: illus/hb/Audrey Niffenegger]
- Her Fearful Symmetry (New York: Scribner, 2009) [hb/Skye Chalmers]
- The Night Bookmobile (New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2010) [graph: illus/hb/Audrey Niffenegger]
- The Raven Girl (New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2010) [chap: graph: illus/hb/Audrey Niffenegger]
- Bizarre Romance (New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2018) with Eddie Campbell [coll: some stories graph: illus/hb/Eddie Campbell]
work as editor
- Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories (London: Vintage, 2015) [anth: illus/hb/Audrey Niffenegger]
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