 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977, and grew up in the university town of Nsukka. An O. Henry Prize-winner, she has also received the PEN/David T. K. Wong Award for Short Fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was a finalist for the Orange Prize and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. |
