The Village Voice, April 16th, 2008
FOLLOW-UP
The Voice catches up with memoir author Ishmael Beah at Columbia
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 celebratedand controversial-memoir about his experiences as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone, surfaced Thursday at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice for a talk sponsored by the Department of African Studies.
After standing in line while the author signed copies of A Long Way Gone, a Voice reporter asked B...
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