ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


Writing is a private thing. It’s boring to watch, and its pleasures tend to be most
intense for the person who’s actually doing the writing. So with big gratitude and
much awe, I would like to thank everyone who helped me to write and publish The
Time Traveler’s Wife:

Thank you to Joseph Regal, for saying Yes, and for an education in the wily ways
of publishing. It’s been a blast. Thank you to the excellent people of MacAdam/Cage,
especially Anika Streitfeld, my editor, for patience and care and close scrutiny. It is a
great pleasure to work with Dorothy Carico Smith, Pat Walsh, David Poindexter,
Kate Nitze, Tom White, and John Gray. And thank you also to Melanie Mitchell,
Amy Stoll, and Tasha Reynolds. Many thanks also to Howard Sanders, and to
Caspian Dennis.

The Ragdale Foundation supported this book with numerous residencies. Thank
you to its marvelous staff, especially Sylvia Brown, Anne Hughes, Susan Tillett, and
Melissa Mosher. And thank you to The Illinois Arts Council, and the taxpayers of
Illinois, who awarded me a Fellowship in Prose in 2000.

Thank you to the librarians and staff, past and present, of the Newberry Library:
Dr. Paul Gehl, Bart Smith, and Margaret Kulis. Without their generous help, Henry
would have ended up working at Starbucks. I would also like to thank the librarians


of the Reference Desk at the Evanston Public Library, for their patient assistance with
all sorts of wacko queries.

Thank you to papermakers who patiently shared their knowledge: Marilyn Sward
and Andrea Peterson.

Thanks to Roger Carlson of Bookman’s Alley, for many years of happy book
hunting, and to Steve Kay of Vintage Vinyl for stocking everything I want to listen to.
And thanks to Carol Prieto, realtor supreme.

Many thanks to friends, family, and colleagues who read, critiqued, and
contributed their expertise: Lyn Rosen, Danea Rush, Jonelle Niffenegger, Riva Lehrer,
Lisa Gurr, Robert Vladova, Melissa Jay Craig, Stacey Stern, Ron Falzone, Marcy
Henry, Josie Kearns, Caroline Preston, Bill Frederick, Bert Menco, Patricia
Niffenegger, Beth Niffenegger, Jonis Agee and the members of her Advanced Novel
class, Iowa City, 2001. Thanks to Paula Campbell for her help with the French.

Special thanks to Alan Larson, whose unflagging optimism set me a good example.

Last and best, thanks to Christopher Schneberger: I waited for you, and now
you’re here.

AUDREY NIFFENEGGER is a visual artist and a professor in the Interdisciplinary Book
Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts,
where she teaches writing, letterpress printing, and fine edition book production. She
shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler’s Wife is her
first novel.

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Audrey Niffenegger
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Niffenegger, Audrey.
The time traveler’s wife / by Audrey Niffenegger.
ISBN
(hardcover :
p. cm.
alk.
1-931561-64-8
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1.
2. Married people—Fiction. I.
813’54-dc21 2003010159
Time
Title. PS3564.I362T56 2003
travel—Fiction.
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Book design by Dorothy Carico Smith.

Publisher’s Note. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously Any
resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely
coincidental.