Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), was well received her second, Half of a Yellow Sun, was a sensation. I didn’t think it was possible for people like me to be in books.”Īdichie studied medicine briefly and moved to the United States at nineteen, eventually receiving an MFA from Johns Hopkins. “When I started to write, I was writing Enid Blyton stories, even though I had never been to England. “It was Achebe’s fiction that made me realize my own story could be in a book,” she said in an interview with the New York Times.
The fifth of sixth children, Adichie grew up in Nsukka, a university town in Nigeria, in a house once occupied by the celebrated Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, who became a great influence on her. Her new book, Americanah, will be published in May by Knopf and, like its predecessors, it’s a thrilling and risky piece of writing that takes on taboos, shatters pieties, and combines forthright prose, subversive humor, and a ripping good story. Sinclair Lewis wrote that “every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.” Few writers have so flagrantly flouted these pressures as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the celebrated Nigerian author of Half of a Yellow Sun and The Thing Around Your Neck. Photo: (from left) Tim Hout © Frantzesco Kangaris/Eyevine/Reduxīy Parul Sehgal, Tin House Summer Issue, 201 3
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