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 ...

The book also pays tribute to “Ishmael” and to Quinn, its author. Shadyac writes: “Ishmael” grabbed “me by my throat in a literary vise grip.

Ishmael Beah wrote about his experience as a child soldier in his first book, the memoir "A Long Way Gone." He returns to Sierra Leone to write about what happens to a village, and its people ...

For answers, paddle up to Salem, where the Peabody Essex Museum is presenting “Draw Me Ishmael: The Book Arts of Moby-Dick.” This engrossing exhibition fits into a gallery the size of a large ...

NEW YORK – At 33, Ishmael Beah has a radiant smile and laughs easily and often. That's especially striking if you've read his 2007 best-selling memoir, A Long Way Gone, about being forced into ...

The African writer Ishmael Beah, author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir "A Long Way Gone," offers a novel of young people struggling to survive on the outskirts of society. Kpindi ...

Beah, his editor, Sarah Crichton at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and his agent, Ira Silverberg, vigorously deny the allegations. In the book, Beah claims to have a photographic memory.

"Ishmael" – the first book in the series, which also includes "The Story of B," "My Ishmael" (the book Lee cited) and "Beyond Civilization" – won a $500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award.

The "Ishmael" books are aimed at encouraging radical social change — but their author says hostage-taking is definitely not the change he had in mind. Daniel Quinn's story of Ishmael, a ...

Ishmael Reed - born here in Chattanooga - has made an indelible mark on the literary world with more than 30 books of prose, ...