Description Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic Young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
He and his family live in Austin..
His forthcoming book, The Kings of Big Spring , a multi-generational saga about his family in West Texas, will be published by Flatiron Books in early 2018.
Mealer is also the author of All Things Must Fight to Live , which chronicled his years covering the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo for Harper\'s and the Associated Press.
Since publication, the book has received many honors and has been translated into over a dozen languages.
Bryan Mealer is the author of Muck City and the New York Times bestseller The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind , which he wrote with William Kamkwamba.
He divides his time between Malawi and San Francisco, California.
The original version of his memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind was a New York Times Bestseller and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.
About the Author William Kamkwamba recently graduated from Dartmouth College.
Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring Readers up to date on William\'s story, this is the perfect Edition to read and share with the whole family.
Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy\'s brilliant idea can light up the world.
Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William\'s windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land.
There, he came up with the idea that would change his family\'s life forever: he could build a windmill.
William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution.
When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba\'s tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season\'s crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell.
Description Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic Young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village
