Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie





Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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September 15, 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria, the fifth of six children to Igbo parents.

Chimamanda studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. At nineteen, Chimamanda left for the U.S to study communication at Drexel University in Philadelphia for two years, then went on to pursue a degree in communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University. Chimamanda graduated summa cum laude from Eastern in 2001, and then completed a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

It is during her senior year at Eastern that she started working on her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, which was released in October 2003.

Chimamanda was a Hodder fellow at Princet...more


Average rating: 4.06 · 15,499 ratings · 2,490 reviews · 13 distinct works
Half of a Yellow Sun
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 8,669 ratings — published 2006 — 38 editions
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Purple Hibiscus
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 4,856 ratings — published 2003 — 27 editions
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The Thing Around Your Neck
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,739 ratings — published 2009 — 21 editions
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Imitation
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Cell One
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009
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“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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