Book: The Time Traveler’s Wife
The author’s writing is what amazes me the most and keeps me wanting to read more. Her ability to skip from the past to the present and change the setting five or three times a chapter can be utterly confusing to a reader. But following her writing seems simple she makes the story flow with such ease. The story of time traveling can bring a reader from year to year and switching the point of view from Henry to Clare can confuse the story line. But Audrey uses Henry and Clare’s epic love story for the main plot. Following the relationship of Clare and Henry allows the mystery and overall passion between the two to overpower the time traveling. She is able to keep the story flowing from start to finish.
Papinchak, Allen. "Audrey Niffenegger." ProQuest Learning:Literature 123.7 Jul 2010. 50. Copyright Kalmbach . Database. 11 Oct 2011. <http://literature.proquestlearning.com/quick/displayMultiItem.do?Multi=yes&ResultsID=1325B51BD5A&forAuthor=0&QueryName=criticism&ItemNumber=2>.
Papinchak, Allen. "Audrey Niffenegger." Writer 7(2010):50. eLibrary. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/curriculumca/do/document?set=search&dictionaryClick=&secondaryNav=&groupid=1&requestid=lib_canada&resultid=20&edition=&ts=3CD4279E73C24A22C0491D75DA326D33_1319056477513&start=1&publicationId=&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B181637122&pdfflag=y#citation
Gayagoy, Gabrielle. "READER-RECOMMENDED." Joe Weider's Shape. 01 Jul. 2005: 38. eLibrary. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/curriculumca/do/document?set=search&dictionaryClick=&secondaryNav=&groupid=1&requestid=lib_canada&resultid=182&edition=&ts=7FE2AEA93CAA81316870A8313E1946E9_1319064200388&start=176&publicationId=&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B115877688
de Lint, Charles. "The Time Traveler's Wife." Fantasy & Science Fiction. 01 May. 2004: 28. eLibrary. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/curriculumca/do/document?set=search&dictionaryClick=&secondaryNav=&groupid=1&requestid=lib_canada&resultid=200&edition=&ts=7FE2AEA93CAA81316870A8313E1946E9_1319064200388&start=176&publicationId=&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B94097053
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| Evanston, Illinois Audrey Niffenegger's home town. |
Audrey Niffenegger was born 1963 in Evanston, Illinois. As a young girl she spent most of her time alone in her room finger painting her stories she created in her head. Niffenegger later got her bachelor’s in 1985 from the Art Institute of Chicago, and then received her master’s in 1991 from Northwestern University. She works as a professor for the Interdisciplinary Book Arts program at Columbia College. Her first novel she published was The Time Traveler’s Wife.
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Produce: A Cautionary Tale for Picky Eaters published in 2005 (left) The Three Incestuous Sisters published in 2005 (middle) The Adventuress published in 2006 (right) |
Following the novel The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey wrote The Three Incestuous Sisters an illustrated novel which was published in 2005 and was a fairy tale of three orphaned sisters. In 2006 she published the novel The Adventuress, as well in 2005 she published a short story Prudence: A Cautionary Tale for Picky Eaters. All the novels relate along the same genres varying a little but not by much, Audrey liked to write about love, mutations, death, sex, and time for most of her novels.
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| Audrey Niffenegger Themes: Love, Death Sex, Paranormal |
She continues to write these love, time and sex genre books, but she has started to go darker as she is writing about superstitions and paranormal activity she is going more in-depth and using more detailed writing to be able to express her love for the arts. Writing and making art since she was little girl it was in her perspective that all her novels were merely pointless but she does it out of pure joy and it can be a way of recording daydreams in a more dynamic way. With no schedule and set time to write and usually losing her rough notes. The writing usually only happened when she had a deadline or she knew she had a little time from her crazy life to just sit at the computer and write a little.
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| Audrey Niffenegger working on some of her own art. |
Major themes Audrey is known for are her very in-depth artsy work using sex, love, time, and even now the darker influence to catch a reader’s eye of the supernatural. By spreading the variety of different themes it allows for a broader range of readers. She has also illustrated novels using more of the art visual to express more of her talented writing.
Source for Literary Biography
Papinchak, Allen. "Audrey Niffenegger." ProQuest Learning:Literature 123.7 Jul 2010. 50. Copyright Kalmbach . Database. 11 Oct 2011. <http://literature.proquestlearning.com/quick/displayMultiItem.do?Multi=yes&ResultsID=1325B51BD5A&forAuthor=0&QueryName=criticism&ItemNumber=2>.
Critical Authors, Secondary Sources
Papinchak, Allen. "Audrey Niffenegger." Writer 7(2010):50. eLibrary. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/curriculumca/do/document?set=search&dictionaryClick=&secondaryNav=&groupid=1&requestid=lib_canada&resultid=20&edition=&ts=3CD4279E73C24A22C0491D75DA326D33_1319056477513&start=1&publicationId=&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B181637122&pdfflag=y#citation
Gayagoy, Gabrielle. "READER-RECOMMENDED." Joe Weider's Shape. 01 Jul. 2005: 38. eLibrary. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/curriculumca/do/document?set=search&dictionaryClick=&secondaryNav=&groupid=1&requestid=lib_canada&resultid=182&edition=&ts=7FE2AEA93CAA81316870A8313E1946E9_1319064200388&start=176&publicationId=&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B115877688
de Lint, Charles. "The Time Traveler's Wife." Fantasy & Science Fiction. 01 May. 2004: 28. eLibrary. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/curriculumca/do/document?set=search&dictionaryClick=&secondaryNav=&groupid=1&requestid=lib_canada&resultid=200&edition=&ts=7FE2AEA93CAA81316870A8313E1946E9_1319064200388&start=176&publicationId=&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B94097053
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