Ghostly: A Conversation With Audrey Niffenegger and Ken Gerleve
ABH Board Member Ken Gerleve recently sat down with ABH’s founder and president, bestselling author and visual artist Audrey Niffenegger, to discuss ghosts, ghost stories, cemeteries, and their relevance to her artwork and writing. They also discussed her second novel Her Fearful Symmetry, which features London’s Highgate Cemetery, and the ghost story anthology Ghostly, which Audrey illustrated.
About Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger is an internationally known author and artist. Her novel The Time Traveler’s Wife was made into a movie in 2009 and will soon be an HBO series, written by Steven Moffat. Her graphic novel Raven Girl was the basis for a Wayne McGregor ballet at the Royal Opera House Ballet. In 2013 she was given a retrospective at the National Museum for Women in the Arts. She is one of the founders of the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts and taught printing, creative writing, and visual narrative as a professor in its MFA program for many years; she also taught for Columbia’s Fiction Department. Ms. Niffenegger is a former president of the Chicago Hand Bookbinders. She has taught at Penland School of Craft, UIC, the Newberry Library, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Evanston Art Center. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute, her MFA from Northwestern University, and is an Evanston native. She occasionally volunteers as a guide at Highgate Cemetery in London.
For more information on Audrey’s art and writing, visit her website at www.audreyniffenegger.com
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Edited by Ken Gerleve
Original Artwork & Illustrations by Audrey Niffenegger
Photography & Animation by Ken Gerleve
Original Music by Alex Kliner
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