Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Monday, Oct. 3, 2022 | 8 p.m.

Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria to an Igbo family and moved to the United States to complete her graduate education at Yale University and at the Johns Hopkins University. Her award-winning novels include “Americanah” (2013 National Book Critics Circle Award), “Half a Yellow Sun” (2007 Orange Prize) and “Purple Hibiscus” (2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize). She is the recipient of many other awards, including a 2008 MacArthur Genius Grant. Her nonfiction works include “We should all be feminists” (2014) and a June 2021 essay, “It Is Obscene,” a critique of “cancel culture.” Contact Bob Boyers for more information.