Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
November 23, 1980: Happy 33rd birthday, Ishmael Beah! His memoir, A Long Way Gone, tells of his boyhood as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. He is now at work on a novel, due out next year, that explores the aftermath of civil war.
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