Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is from Abba, in the Anambra State, but grew up in the university town of Nsukka, where she attended primary and secondary schools and briefly studied medicine and pharmacy. She then moved to the United States to attend college, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State with a major in communication and a minor in political science. She holds a master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree in African studies from Yale University.

"Purple Hibiscus," won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was also short-listed for the Orange Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and long-listed for the Booker Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Prospect and The Iowa Review among other literary journals. She received an O. Henry Prize in 2003 and was a 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, where she taught introductory fiction. Her second book, ³Half of the Yellow Sun," won the Orange Price in 2007. She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

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