Illinois Arts Council

The Illinois Arts Council is acknowledged in the closing thanks to The Time Traveler’s Wife as one of the institutions that supported the book’s author: it awarded her a Fellowship in Prose in 2000, alongside support from the Ragdale Foundation.

Support for the Book

The author thanks the Illinois Arts Council and the taxpayers of Illinois for the fellowship. The acknowledgment records both the institution’s role in awarding the grant and the public funding behind it, placing the book’s creation within a network of cultural support rather than presenting it as an isolated achievement.

Place in the Acknowledgments

The fellowship appears in a passage that also credits the Ragdale Foundation with providing numerous residencies. The distinct forms of support—residential time from Ragdale and a prose fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council—are named together, while the thanks to Illinois taxpayers makes the public dimension of the award explicit. The book provides no further details about the fellowship’s application, duration, or specific use.