Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on 15 September 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, into an Igbo family and raised on the University of Nigeria campus in Nsukka, in a house once occupied by Chinua Achebe. She moved to the United States at nineteen and attended Eastern Connecticut State University (BA summa cum laude, 2001), Johns Hopkins University (MA in creative writing, 2003), and Yale University (MA in African studies, 2008). Her works blend Western and African elements, exploring culture, gender, immigration, and the Biafran War. Read more →