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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Chimamanda
Ngozi
Adichie |
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September 15, 1977
Enugu, Nigeria |
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Nigerian |
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Biography
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), gained international acclaim for its depiction of the devastation caused by the Nigerian Civil War. Her novels, short stories, and nonfiction explore the intersections of identity.
Early in life Adichie, the fifth of six children, moved with her Igbo parents to Nsukka, Nigeria. A voracious reader from a young age, she found Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart transformative.
After studying medicine for a time in Nsukka, in 1997 she left for the United States, where she studied communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University. Splitting her time between Nigeria and the United States, she received a master's degree in creative writing from John Hopkins University and studied African history at Yale University.
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