Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Monday, October 27th, 2014 at 5:00 p.m.
Grand Maple Ballroom – Dudley H. Davis Center
Free and Open to the Public

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria. Her most recent novel
Americanah was named one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the year
and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her novel
Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize, and her novel Purple Hibiscus
won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
The Thing Around Your Neck, her collection of stories, was shortlisted for
the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in Africa.

The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she was named one of
the twenty most important fiction writers today under 40 years old by the
New Yorker.

Endorsed by • African Studies Program • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Program • Center for Cultural Pluralism • Economics Department • Gender,
Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program • Global and Regional Studies
Program • History Department • Honors College • Office of the Vice
President for Human Resources, Diveristy and Multicultural Affairs •

Sponsored by the English Department and James and Mary Brigham Buckham
Scholarship Fund
ADA: individuals requiring accommodations should contact Sally Knight at 656-3166