1. Tomi Adeyemi was born on August 1,1993 and is an American writer and creative writing coach.
16 Facts About Tomi Adeyemi
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Tomi Adeyemi's father was a physician in Nigeria but found employment as a taxi driver while he waited to transfer his qualifications.
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Tomi Adeyemi grew up in Chicago and was not exposed to her Nigerian heritage or Yoruba ethnicity as her parents decided not to teach her or her siblings their native tongue.
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Tomi Adeyemi wrote her first story when she was five years old, and continued to write throughout her teenage years.
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Tomi Adeyemi graduated from Hinsdale Central High School in Hinsdale, Illinois in 2011.
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Tomi Adeyemi went on to graduate from Harvard University with an honors degree in English Literature, then studied West African mythology and culture in Salvador, Brazil, on a fellowship.
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Tomi Adeyemi instead set herself a year to write another book that became Children of Blood and Bone, and she entered it into Pitch Wars, a competition program in which emerging writers are matched with editors and authors to revise their work before they submit it to a literary agent.
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In November 2018, Tomi Adeyemi accused Nora Roberts of plagiarizing the title of her novel, Of Blood and Bone from Children of Blood and Bone.
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Tomi Adeyemi later retracted the accusation saying "after talking to her, I believe our titles were created in isolation".
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Tomi Adeyemi criticised Adeyemi's lack of fact checking and the fact that Adeyemi had not deleted the accusation a day later.
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Tomi Adeyemi later stated on her Instagram that her publisher offered her two choices: June 2019 and December 2019, but she chose the former so fans would not have to wait.
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Tomi Adeyemi asked to serve as scriptwriter, a request that Lucasfilm had declined.
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In June 2024, Tomi Adeyemi released the final installment of the trilogy, Children of Anguish and Anarchy.
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Tomi Adeyemi's website has been named one of the 101 best websites for writers by Writer's Digest.
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Tomi Adeyemi made a guest appearance in the final episode of Hermione Granger and the Quarter Life Crisis.
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Tomi Adeyemi's mother manages hospices just outside Chicago, her father is a doctor, and her brother is a musician.