Ishmael Beah is a Sierra Leonean writer and the author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier (2007), Radiance of Tomorrow (2014), and Little Family (2020). A Long Way Gone 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. His work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Time, International Herald Tribune, Globe & Mail, Rutgers University Press, Vespertine Press, LIT, The Guardian, and many other places.