ms. adichie will feel the same connection i feel tonight with my neighbor, eudora welty. it is my pleasure to present chimamanda ngozi adichie. [cheers and applause] .. / after i moved from nigeria to the u.s. at the age of 19 to terrified college, began to read as much american fiction as i could to make sense of the new country whose cop toward have been mostly formed in my imagination but the films and television shows i had watched. i still remember reading eudora welty's short story, whether is the voice coming from. a knicksallized account of the murder of medgar evers. in the story. the white man who murdered the blacking aist ash activist tells his wife what he has done, and his wife says it's going to get him right back on tv. just watch nor funeral. that line did for me what the history books had not. it illuminated a particular white southern feud of black americans. i saw how dehumanizing a group of people turns your own humanity into a hollow shell. i saw the innocence, the grace, the resilience in at the face of mop mon industriesty. the senior of irish-ameri

ms. adichie, will feel the same connection i feel tonight with my neighbor, eudora welty. t is my pleasure to present, chimamanda ngozi adichie. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, thank you all for being here. i am very honored to be here today in the shadow of a woman who was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. and one whose work helped me better understand america. nigeria to ved from the us at the age of 19, to attend college, i began to read as much american fiction as i could. to make sense of this new country whose condors have been mostly formed in my imagination by films and television shows that i had watched. i still remember reading eudora welty short story, where is the voice coming from? which is a fictionalized account of the murder of the civil rights activist, medgar evers. in the story, the white man who murders the black activist goes home afterwards. and tell his wife what he has done. and his wife says, it's going to get him right back on tv. just watch for the funeral. that line did for me, the history books have not. it illuminated a part