Sponsored Blog Post: Audrey Niffenegger resides in Chicago, where she is a visual artist and professor in the MFA program at the Columbia College Chicago Centre for Book and Paper Arts. At the end of four and half years of writing The Time Traveler’s Wife, Niffenegger dyed her hair red, as a tribute and a way to say goodbye to lead character Claire Tabshire.  She has published The Three Incestuous Sisters: An Illustrated Novel ( Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 2005) a fairytale about the lives of three sisters who live by the sea, and The Adventuress (Harry N. Abrams, 2006) a dreamy tale of an alchemist’s daughter and her discovery of love. Both books featured illustrations done by Niffenegger. This September, Audrey Niffenegger will publish Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel (Scribner), about the lives of twin girls who inherit a home near Highgate cemetery in London. According to the NY Times, she received an advance of US$5 million. Currently the trade paperback edition of The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of the top five bestsellers on the New York Times Bestseller list.