Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is the author of three novels,
Purple Hibiscus (2003),
Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and
Americanah (2013), of a short story collection,
The Thing around Your Neck (2009), and of three books of non-fiction,
We Should All Be Feminists (2014),
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), and
Notes on Grief (2021).
She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008).
