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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 94. Chapters: A. J. Ayer, Saul Bellow, Jacob Neusner, Ralph Ellison, Chinua Achebe, Joel Kovel, Orhan Pamuk, John Ashbery, Daron Hagen, Mark Danner, Joan Tower, William Weaver, Albert Jay Nock, Liam Gillick, Ken Lum, William Gaddis, Norman Manea, Roswell Rudd, Bradford Morrow, David Shapiro, Kyle Gann, Leslie Scalapino, Leah Gilliam, Paul LaFarge, Anthony Hecht, Walter Russell Mead, Andre Aciman, Robert Kelly, Bob Holman, Benjamin Boretz, Dawn Upshaw, James Chace, Emily Barton, Mat Johnson, Ian Buruma, Stephen Shore, Kati Marton, Franklin Bruno, Apo Hsu, Mona Simpson, Francine Prose, Wilhelm Sollmann, Donald Finkel, John Esposito, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Caleb Carr, Karen Joy Greenberg, Lawrence Weschler, Ann Lauterbach, Jacob Druckman, Harvey Fite, Mary Lee Settle, Kelly Reichardt, Peggy Ahwesh, Edie Meidav, Larry Fink, Josip Novakovich, Bruce Chilton, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Artine Artinian, JoAnne Akalaitis, Judy Pfaff, Nancy Bonvillain, Theodore Weiss, George Tsontakis, Erica Lindsay, Luc Sante, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Luis Garcia-Renart, William Humphrey, Daniel Zwerdling, Michael Tibbetts, Adolfas Mekas, Stephen Westfall, Peter Hutton, Garry L. Hagberg, Matthew Sharpe, Heinrich Blucher, Nancy Davenport, Tim Davis, Janet Benshoof, Jill Hoffman, Richard Teitelbaum, Jackie Goss, Elizabeth Frank, Mary Caponegro. Excerpt: Albert Chin al m g Achebe (born 16 November 1930) popularly known as Chinua Achebe ( ) is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He is best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and bega...