About the author
Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian American novelist and comics writer whose science fiction and fantasy draw on African settings, histories, technologies, and forms of storytelling. Her work includes the Binti novellas, Who Fears Death, Akata Witch, and Lagoon.
Death of the Author follows a disabled Nigerian American writer whose breakthrough novel becomes a cultural phenomenon. It moves between her family story and material from the novel inside the novel, asking who controls a story once the world claims it.
Where to start
Start with Death of the Author for Okorafor's novel about authorship, family, disability, and the uncertain boundary between a writer and her imagined future.