Author

Uzodinma Iweala

5 books, mostly literary fiction, for John Murray and Amazon Original Stories, 2015–2019

Uzodinma Iweala is a Nigerian-American writer and physician whose debut novel, Beasts of No Nation (2005), drew critical acclaim for its portrayal of a child soldier and was adapted into a major film. He later published the nonfiction book Our Kind of People (2012), about HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, and the novel Speak No Evil (2018), a coming-of-age story about a queer Nigerian-American teenager. His fiction, essays, and short stories have appeared in major publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and The Paris Review.