Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
was born in Nigeria in 1977. She
is from Abba, in Anambra State,
but grew up in the university
town of Nsukka where she
attended primary and secondary
schools and briefly studied
Medicine and Pharmacy. She then
moved to the United States to
attend college, graduating summa
cum laude from Eastern
Connecticut State with a major
in Communication and a minor in
Political Science. She holds a
Masters degree in Creative
Writing from Johns Hopkins and a
Masters degree in African
Studies from Yale.
Purple
Hibiscus
won the Commonwealth Writers'
Prize and the Hurston/Wright
Legacy Award. It was also
short-listed for the Orange
Prize and the John Llewellyn
Rhys Prize and long-listed for
the Booker Prize. Her short
fiction has appeared in
Granta, Prospect,
and The Iowa Review
among other literary journals,
and she received an O. Henry
Prize in 2003. She was a
2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at
Princeton, where she taught
Introductory Fiction. She
divides her time between the
United States and Nigeria.
