Chinua Achebe

Known for Writing

11/16/1930

Ogidi, Nigeria

Biography

Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. He was a writer, known for Things Fall Apart (1971), Things Fall Apart (1987) and Ebony (1982). He was married to Christine Chinwe Okoli. He died on March 21, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Known For (1 credit)

Movie

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

1982

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.