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    A Study Guide for Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife"
    A Study Guide for Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife"
    A Study Guide for Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife"
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    A Study Guide for Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife"

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    A Study Guide for Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary News For Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary News For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 14, 2016
    ISBN9781535818889
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      A Study Guide for Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife" - Gale

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      The Time Traveler's Wife

      Audrey Niffenegger

      2004

      Introduction

      The Time Traveler's Wife is Audrey Niffenegger's first novel. Though twenty-five agents initially turned down the manuscript, the book ventured on to great success, selling over a million copies in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The debut novel has garnered several awards, including the British Book Award of 2006, and has reached the New York Times bestseller list, among others. Actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston started a bidding war among potential publishers by securing the film rights to the novel for their production company, Plan B, in 2003, before the book was published.

      The Time Traveler's Wife chronicles the romance between Henry, a Chicago librarian who vanishes in and out of time, and Clare, an artist who first encounters him as a child. Despite its science-fiction premise, the novel is more about the love and longing, the joy and melancholy, between star-crossed soul mates. Niffenegger says the story was inspired by the love between her maternal grandparents. Her grandfather died young, and her grandmother, who lived another three decades, never remarried. As she explains in her biography on the website BookBrowse, I wanted to write about a perfect marriage that is tested by something outside the control of the couple.

      The resulting novel has charmed readers around the world and provided countless book clubs with fuel for passionate discussion. Judith Mass captured its appeal in her 2003 review for the Boston Globe: Refreshingly, the novel portrays long-term commitment as something lively and exuberant rather than dutiful and staid, evoking both the comforts it brings us and the tribulations we learn to live with.

      Author Biography

      Born June 13, 1963, Audrey Niffenegger spent her childhood writing and imagining in Evanston, Illinois. She earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1985 and her master of fine arts from Northwestern University in 1991. While writing The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger lived in Chicago and taught writing, letterpress printing, and fine edition book production at the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her fiction has been published in Bust, The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry, and Electronic Book Review, while her visual art can be found in the collections of the Newberry Library, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Library of Congress, the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and Temple University, among others.

      In writing The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger received several fellowships including a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship received nine years in a row, as well as a Fellowship in Prose from the Illinois Arts Council in 2000 and an Artist's Grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation in 1991.

      In 2005, Niffenegger published Three Incestuous Sisters: An Illustrated Novel, a tragic, erotic, and Gothic tale about three sisters who love the same man. Another illustrated novel, The Adventuress, is expected in 2006. Niffenegger's creative inspiration comes from an eclectic variety of artistic sources, including Aubrey Beardsley, Max Klinger, Edvard Munch,

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