Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He graduated from Ibadan University in a large village of Ogidi. He worked for the radio earlier on in his career until 1966 when the Biafran war broke out. He was appointed as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria and lectured around the world. He was then a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherts, and Connecticut, Storrs from 1972-1976 and 1987-1988 teaching english. Throughout Achebe's life, he published many novels, children's books, short stories, essays, and poetry. One of his collections of poetry, Christmas in Biafra, was a joint winner of the Commonwealth poetry prize. During his profession, he was awarded several honors from around the world, including Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Merit Award.
He now lives with his wife and four children in New York, where they both teach at Bard College.
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