| Chinua Achebe  AKA Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
Born: 16-Nov-1930
Birthplace: Ogidi, Nigeria
Died: 22-Mar-2013
Location of death: Boston, MA
Cause of death: Illness
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: Nigeria
Executive summary: Things Fall Apart Father: Isaiah Okafor Achebe (d.)
Mother: Janet N. Achebe
Wife: Christie C. Okoli (psychologist, m. 1961, two sons, two daughters)
High School: Government College, Umuahia
University: University College Ibadan
Professor: English, University of Massachusetts (1972-75)
Professor: University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1972)
Professor: University of Connecticut (1975-76)
Professor: University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1976-81)
Professor: Stanford University
Professor: Dartmouth College
Professor: Bard College (1990-2009)
Professor: Brown University (2009)
British Broadcasting Corporation
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1982
Modern Language Association 1974
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2002
Appendectomy
Paralyzed from the waist down (22-Mar-1990), car accident, Lagos, Nigeria
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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