| Chinua Achebe AKA Albert Chinualumogu Achebe Born: 16-Nov-1930
Birthplace: Ogidi, Nigeria
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: Nigeria
Executive summary: Things Fall Apart Father: Isaiah O. Achebe (d.)
Mother: Janet N. Achebe
Wife: Christie C. Okoli (m. 961, two sons, two daughters)
High School: Government College, Umuahia
University: University College Ibadan
Professor: English, University of Massachusetts (1972-75)
Professor: University of Connecticut (1975-76)
Professor: University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1976-81)
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1982
Modern Language Association 1974
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2002
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Risk Factors: Appendicitis
Author of books:
Things Fall Apart (1958, novel)
No Longer at Ease (1960, novel)
Arrow of God (1964, novel)
Man of the People (1966, novel)
Beware, Soul Brother (1971, poetry)
Christmas in Biafra (1973, poetry)
Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975, essays)
Home and Exile (2000, memoir)
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