Nigerian native Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a writer whose work is inspired by Nigerian history. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was short-listed for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and long-listed for the Booker Prize. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the 2007 Orange Prize for fiction. Adichie also writes short stories and has published a collection, The Thing Around Your Neck. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Prospect, and The Iowa Review, among other literary journals, and she received an O. Henry Prize in 2003. Adichie was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, where she taught introductory fiction. Recently she was awarded a fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Adichie divides her time between Nigeria, where she regularly teaches writing workshops, and the United States.

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