Chinua Achebe

I'm looking forward to reading Things Fall Apart, not only because it's an easy read, but also it seems like it's a good follow up to Grapes. Just from knowing the title and reading the back, I can tell that it will be about change that disrupts groups and the deterioration of classes. This book, I noticed, is also set up in a different way like Grapes was. It has two parts, describing two different people and how their situations are alike. I'm looking forward to finding out more about these tribes and groups.

Like always, I like to have some information about the author before I start reading. I did some research and this is what I found:

• Born in Nigeria in 1930.
• He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria.
• A graduate of University College, Ibadan.
• He had a career in radio but he ended it to lecture abroad for the University of Nigeria, Nsukka during the Biafran War.
• From 1972-1976, he became a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and also for one year at the University of Connecticut.
• The London Sunday Times called him one of the "1,000 Makers of the Twentieth Century" for defining "a modern African literature that was truly African".
• Aside from novels, he has also written short stories, essays, and children's books.