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The New York Times: How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss

The family of Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has confirmed that her young son has died. According to the BBC and The Guardian, Adichie’s representative, Omawumi Ogbe of GLG Communications, ...

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Essence: Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Mourns The Loss Of Her 1-Year-Old Son Following A Brief Illness

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Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her husband Ivara Esege, MD, are grieving an unimaginable loss. Their one-year-old son has passed away after suffering a brief illness. The renowned author ...

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Mourns The Loss Of Her 1-Year-Old Son Following A Brief Illness

One could almost be forgiven for forgetting that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a novelist. Well over a decade has passed since she published the best seller Americanah, about a young Nigerian woman’s ...

NPR: Celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'I have always longed to be known'

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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first three novels won prizes and critical acclaim. Two were optioned for movies, and one, Americanah, sold more than a million copies in the U.S. alone. But ...

Celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'I have always longed to be known'

Apollo was one of the Twelve Olympians and the Greek god of prophecy, healing, art, and culture. He embodied the Greek ideal of masculine beauty.

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Apollo was the Roman god who inspired prophecy, poetry, music, and medicine. Incorporated directly from the Greeks after a plague devastated Rome, he was both the bringer of and guardian against pestilence.

During a preflight test for what was to be the first crewed Apollo mission, a fire claimed the lives of three U.S. astronauts; Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. After the disaster, the mission was officially designated Apollo 1.