Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda N. Adichie
Born Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
September 15, 1977 (1977-09-15) (age 31)
Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
Nationality Nigerian
Ethnicity Igbo
Writing period 2003-present
Notable work(s) Purple Hibiscus
Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977) is an acclaimed Nigerian writer. She comes from Abba in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria. Her family is of Igbo descent.[1]

She was born in the town of Enugu but grew up in the university town of Nsukka in south-eastern Nigeria, where the University of Nigeria is situated. While she was growing up, her father was a professor of statistics at the University, and her mother was also employed there as the university registrar. At the age of 19, she left Nigeria and moved to the United States. After studying at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Chimamanda transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University to live closer to her sister; who had a medical practice in Coventry (now in Mansfield, Ct), and to continue studying communications and political science. She got her university degree from Eastern, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2001. She recently completed a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She is now pursuing an MA in African Studies at Yale University. Chimamanda is a 2008 MacArthur Fellow[2]. She was a Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University, in 2008, and participated in Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series.[3]

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  1. ^ Nixon, Rob (October 1, 2006). "A Biafran Story". The New York Times Company. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/books/review/Nixon.t.html. Retrieved on 2009-1-25. "Adichie may not have lived through the civil war, but her imagination seems to have been profoundly molded by it: some of her own Igbo family survived Biafra; others did not." 
  2. ^ David Kelly (23 September 2008). "MacArthurs, Parked". Papercuts (New York Times blog). http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/macarthurs-parked/. Retrieved on 24 March 2009. 
  3. ^ [1] (Spring 2008)
  4. ^ UK Daily Telegraph "Nigerian author wins top literary prize" 7 June 2007

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