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 ...

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 ...

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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At the age of 33, Ishmael Beah has lived several lives already. First there was his life as a child in Sierra Leone, before the civil war that led to the massacre of his village and the death of his ...

A novel that explores what happens after an African civil war Beah%27s memoir%2C %27A Long Way Gone%2C%27 has sold 1.5 million copies NEW YORK – At 33, Ishmael Beah ...

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah travelled to Sudan this week to meet with children and families affected by the conflict that has devastated the country for the past 19 months. During his ...

LisaGay Hamilton watched herself on screen flinging the cremated ashes of actress Beah Richards over a Confederate graveyard in Mississippi, then told the SRO audience at the Museum of Tolerance about ...