ASPEN ” When Ishmael Beah was 12, rebel soldiers began to overrun the villages in his home country, Sierra Leone. When his own village was attacked, early in 1993, Beah was separated from his parents ...

There’s no couch in Ishmael Beah’s New York City loft. The elevator opens to a long narrow room, empty save for a few X-shaped wooden African chief’s chairs, a bunch of pillows on the floor and a ...

Beah's description in his book A Long Way Gone of a 1993 attack on his home region in Sierra Leone was yesterday dismissed as "just impossible" by a senior Catholic priest who was involved in those ...

Ishmael Beah’s publisher wouldn’t allow the Voice to interview him, so the Voice sought out the author himself last week at a public appearance in Manhattan. Beah, the elusive author of a ...

Riverhead Books has acquired two new books from A Long Way Gone author Ishmael Beah, best known for his harrowing memoir about his time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, EW announces exclusively.

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Ishmael Beah has written a memoir about his years as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Orphaned by the civil war there, he was carrying an AK-47 by the age of 12. Pumped up by drugs, he was forced to ...

Growing up in a fishing village in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah passed the time dancing to Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Heavy D and the Boyz, memorizing the lyrics to compete in local talent shows. That all ...