"First published in the United Kingdom in the Heinemann African Writers Series as Secret Lives and Other Stories, 1975. A new edition was published in the United Kingdom by Harvill Secker, 2018. This edition published in the United States by The New Press, New York, 2019"--Title page verso.

One of the leading writers and scholars at work today, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938. He is the author of A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child; and Petals of Blood, as well as Birth of a Dream Weaver, Wrestling with the Devil, and the forthcoming Minutes of Glory (all from The New Press). He has been nominated for, among other honors, the Man Booker International Prize and is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.