AUDREY NIFFENEGGER, TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE AUTHOR, TO APPEAR AT SMC ON MAY 5

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:       April 20, 2007
Contact:  Julie MacDonald,  Public Services Librarian, (310) 434-2644

Critically-acclaimed and award-winning author Audrey Niffenegger will appear at the Santa Monica College Pavilion (Gym), 1900 Pico Boulevard, on Saturday, May 5 at 3:00 p.m.  Audrey Niffenegger’s first novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the 2007 Santa Monica Citywide Reads featured title. 

The Time Traveler’s Wife is the romantic adventure story of beautiful artist Clare Abshire and dashing librarian Henry De Tamble.  Destined to be together as a couple, Clare and Henry must fight against one seemingly insurmountable obstacle: Henry suffers from chrono-displacement disorder, a condition that causes him to unexpectedly jump backwards and forwards in time, while Clare, the love of his life, ages in the normal chronological fashion, completely unaware as to where and when she and her beau will be able to resume their lives together again. 

Audrey Niffenegger is a professor in the M.F.A. program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.  The Time Traveler’s Wife is a New York Times best-seller and has won several awards including a British Book Award for Popular Fiction and the Young Adult Library Services Association’s Alex Award for books with appeal to teens. 

“An Afternoon with Audrey Niffenegger” features a reading and discussion of The Time Traveler’s Wife, followed by a book sale and signing courtesy of Barnes & Noble. Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Santa Monica Public Library and the Santa Monica College Associates, this author presentation is open to the community and admission is free, with seating on a first arrival basis. Parking is free on the Santa Monica College campus.  For more information, call (310) 458-8600, or visit www.smpl.org/cwr.

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