Ishmael Beah, author of the book "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," closes out the 2008-09 season of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Crouse-Hinds Concert ...

As promised in today's Post-Standard, here's more from my recent interview with Ishmael Beah, former child soldier and author of the best-selling memoir, A Long Way Gone, who speaks Tuesday in ...

2007-04-01T20:00:28-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c43/20070401195948001.jpgIshmael Beah tells why he named his book " A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy ...

Taped by WGBH Forum Network, Ishmael Beah, former Sierra Leonean child soldier and author of the memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, visited Harvard Square's Brattle Theater to discuss ...

To be a boy forced to bear arms in an adult conflict is to be a prisoner of war of a terrible kind. Ishmael Beah, 26, went through that extraordinarily horrific struggle as a child in Sierra Leone. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ishmael Beah came to prominence as a former child soldier who survived the civil war in Sierra Leone and wrote of his harrowing experiences in the 2007 bestselling memoir A Long Way Gone. He traveled ...

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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Ishmael Beah is an Author with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2007 Interview as a Member for Children's Rights Advisory Committee in the ...