Skip to main content
Swap Used Books - Buy New Books at Great Prices!
How To Swap Books
Sign Up
Search 
Kiosk
PBS Market (New Books)
Book Browser
Advanced Search
Books Posted Today
Member Book Reviews
Award Winning Books
NYT Best Sellers
Amazon Best Sellers
Most Traveled Copies
Club Wish List
Login
Community
Discussion Forums
Book Lists
Blog
Donations
Box-O-Books
Maps
The Eclectic Pen
Fun Stuff
Top 100
Pulse of PBS
Spread The Word
Photo Gallery
Recipes
Club Tag Cloud
Member Testimonials
Help Center
Kiosk
PBS Market (New Books)
Go Shopping
Buy Credits
Buy PBS Money
Upgrade Membership
Gift Certificates
Transfer Credits
Search - List of Books by Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi (born December 10, 1984) is a British novelist. She was born in Nigeria and moved to London when she was four.
She wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while still at school studying for her A levels at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School.
Oyeyemi studied Social and Political Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating in 2006. Whilst at Cambridge, two of her plays, Juniper's Whitening and Victimese, were performed by fellow students to critical acclaim and subsequently published by Methuen.
In 2007 Bloomsbury published her second novel, The Opposite House which is inspired by Cuban mythology.
Oyeyemi is a lifelong Catholic who has done voluntary work for CAFOD in Kenya [1].
In 2009 Oyeyemi was recognized as one of the women on Venus Zine’s “25 under 25” list.
Her third novel, White is for Witching, described as having "roots in Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe" [2] was published by Picador in May 2009.
She wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while still at school studying for her A levels at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School.
Oyeyemi studied Social and Political Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating in 2006. Whilst at Cambridge, two of her plays, Juniper's Whitening and Victimese, were performed by fellow students to critical acclaim and subsequently published by Methuen.
In 2007 Bloomsbury published her second novel, The Opposite House which is inspired by Cuban mythology.
Oyeyemi is a lifelong Catholic who has done voluntary work for CAFOD in Kenya [1].
In 2009 Oyeyemi was recognized as one of the women on Venus Zine’s “25 under 25” list.
Her third novel, White is for Witching, described as having "roots in Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe" [2] was published by Picador in May 2009.
Novels more
This author page uses material from the Wikipedia article "Helen Oyeyemi", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
Total Books: 50
