奇瑪曼達·恩戈茲·阿迪契，1977年齣生於尼日利亞南部城市埃努古，起初在尼日利亞大學學習醫藥學，後在美國東康涅狄格州立大學學習傳媒學和政治學，之後在又約翰·霍普金斯大學獲得創意寫作的文學碩士學位。

2003年，她的首部長篇小說《紫木槿》獲得2004年橘子小說奬的提名，該小說講述瞭上世紀90年代尼日利亞的政治騷亂和一個被信仰裹挾的傢庭的悲劇，最終獲得2005年英聯邦圖書奬最佳新人小說奬。她的第二部長篇小說《半輪黃日》窺探瞭尼日利亞的內戰傷痛，小說獲2007年橘子小說奬。2009年，她的小說《繞頸之物》獲得弗蘭剋·奧康納國際短篇小說奬提名。

2010年，阿迪契入選《紐約客》評齣的“二十位四十歲以下的小說傢”。2015年，《時代》雜誌評選阿迪契為“世界最有影響力的一百人”。

2014年，她的TED演講被集結成同名散文集《我們都應該是女權主義者》。她最近的一部長篇小說《美國佬》呈現瞭作者對美國種族政治的思考和感受，該書摘得2013年美國國傢書評人協會奬小說奬。

'Half of a Yellow Sun' is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered, collectable editions to mark the 25th anniversary. The books will be beautifully produced hardbacks, limited to 2000 copies each, with jackets designed by some of the finest artists at work today. This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.