Think Twice before Taking on the Australian Press

Published: January 30, 2008, 12:26 pm

Tags: i on the news, writers and writing

The Australian reports more recent developments in the Ishmael Beah (Long Way Gone, 2006) controversy. “US critics ‘wanted to believe’ child soldier’s tale,” by David Nason: THE US literary establishment gave former Sierra Leone child soldier Ishmael Beah a “free pass” on the accuracy of his international bestselling memoir A Long Way Gone because it wanted to believe his story was true, according to a US author and book critic. “Deadly fight Beah describes ‘didn’t happen’,” by Peter Wilson: RELIEF workers from Sierra Leone and international agencies have cast further doubt on best-selling author Ishmael Beah’s account ofhis time as a child soldier, saying they can find no evidence ofadeadly fight that he claims took place in a rehabilitation camp in 1996. Those who’ve been following this story on other blogs (this was a link in previous comments) know that Dan Chaon has said that he was

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