Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
List Price: $8.95
Pages: 209
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0385474547
Publisher: Anchor
Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large
village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work
in Eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan.
His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External
Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran
War. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad.
From 1972 to 1976, and again in 1987 to 1988, Mr. Achebe was a Professor of English at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, and also for one year at the University of
Connecticut, Storrs.
Cited in the London Sunday Times as one of the 1,000 "Makers of the Twentieth Century," for defining
"a modern African literature that was truly African" and thereby making
"a major contribution to world literature," Mr. Achebe has published novels,
short stories, essays, and children's books. His volume of poetry, Christmas
in Biafra, written during the Biafran War, was the joint winner of
the first Commonwealth Poetry Prize. His novel Arrow of God was
winner of the New Statesman-Jock Campbell Award, and Anthills of the
Savannah was a finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize in England.
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