Ishmael Beah

Random Facts about Ishmael Beah:
-28 years old
-had 3 younger brothers and his parents were killed during the war.
-he was remmoved from the war and put into rehab
-he spent 8 months in rehab.
-played soccer and when he lost, he became violent, he said. but after those anger sprees he started winning.
-went back to Sierra Leone for family tracing and the rest of rehab.
-when we was writing he wanted to write about how he felt.
fun fact: he discovered many things while in New York...first time he had a salad, he thought it was grass; first time he ever saw the moving sidewalks in the airport; first time he figured out how to use a shower.
-Lora became his mother around the winter of 96 when his uncle was growing ill. His uncle died in 1997
-June 1998: he wanted everyone to understand what the Sierra Leone war was like.
-talked about young people affected by the war.
-he went to college in Ohio and had 2 years of high school.
-when he first started writing he had no intention of publishing anything.
-his graduate professor told him to edit more and to show his work to some people
-he got an agent and someone published him.

Some questions that were asked...
28 years young -next step?
-he wants to go to law school
-working on 2nd book-fiction