Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author portrait
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

About the Author
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
Dream Count
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
We Should All Be Feminists
Americanah
The Thing Around Your Neck
Half of a Yellow Sun

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Books

Dream Count
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
We Should All Be Feminists
Americanah
The Thing Around Your Neck
Half of a Yellow Sun

Events

Wed Mar 05
First Parish Church
1446 Massachusetts Ave
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138-3820
Google Map

Fri Mar 07
CITY ARTS & LECTURES
257 OAK ST
SAN FRAN, CA 94102-5807
Google Map

Sat Mar 08 | 07:00 PM
Hammer Theatre
101 Paseo de San Antonio
San Jose, CA 95113
Google Map

Sun Mar 09
Neptune Theater
1303 NE 45th St
Seattle, WA 98105
Google Map

Tue Mar 11
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
Google Map

Wed Mar 12
Sixth & I
600 I St NW
Washington, DC 20001
Google Map

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