Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Quick Facts

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Born	September 15, 1977 (age 49) • Enugu • Nigeria
Notable Works	“Americanah” • “Dream Count” • “For Love of Biafra” • “Half of a Yellow Sun” • “Notes on Grief” • “Purple Hibiscus” • “The Thing Around Your Neck” • “We Should All Be Feminists”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie smiling, wearing a black top and long braids styled in a top bun, at the Economic Forum of Cernobbio in Italy.

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D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

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Nick Joaquin

Filipino author

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Kole Omotoso

Nigerian novelist

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Elechi Amadi

Nigerian writer

James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.

James Joyce

Irish author

Henry James

Henry James

American writer

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

James Baldwin stands against a plain background in a dress shirt and tie, arms crossed, holding a cigarette, looking directly at the camera.

James Baldwin

American author

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

British author

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Davies, Robertson

Robertson Davies

Canadian author

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Vernon Lee

English essayist

Wole Soyinka, 2015

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author

Novelist Ben Okri

Ben Okri

Nigerian writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.

Charles Dickens

British novelist

Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.

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