Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, and grew up in Nsukka, where her father was a professor of statistics and her mother the first female registrar at the University of Nigeria. She left Nigeria at nineteen to study in the United States, earning degrees from Eastern Connecticut State University and Johns Hopkins, and later completing a master's in African studies at Yale. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and her second, Half of a Yellow Sun, set during the Biafran War, won the Orange Prize for Fiction and established her as one of the most important writers of her generation. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Americanah.