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 ...

When LisaGay Hamilton was making the film "Beloved" in 1997, she never dreamed she'd one day make a documentary about her co-star, actress Beah Richards. The work was so intense on that adaptation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Ishmael Beah’s 2007 memoir, “A Long Way Gone,” was hard to ignore and impossible to forget. News reports about children conscripted into Sierra Leone’s civil war had shocked the world, but then came ...

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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 ...

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 ...