A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier

Ishmael Beah
Notable, Sarah Crichton Books
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Published February 2007

#1 National Bestseller  

One of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007 (Time)

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon)

 “Everyone in the world should read this book…We should read it to learn about the world and about it what it means to be human.” 

—Carolyn See, The Washington Post

Ishmael Beah
Notable, Sarah Crichton Books
Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah, born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, is the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and Radiance of Tomorrow, A Novel both published by Farrar Straus & Giroux.

His Memoir has been published in over 40 languages and was nominated for a Quill Award in the Best Debut Author category for 2007. Time Magazine named the book as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction books of 2007, ranking at number 3. His novel written with the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable is a powerful book about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times. Already available in several foreign languages, the New York Times finds in his writing an “allegorical richness” and a “remarkable humanity to his [Beah’s] characters”.

His work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Time magazine, International Herald Tribune, Globe & Mail, Rutgers University Press, Vespertine Press, LIT, The Guardian, Parabola magazines and numerous academic journals.

He is based in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and children.

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