He wrote short stories such as one that details a rainmaker's influence on a town, "The Village Priest," and another in which a barmaid named Beatrice steals from a cab driver, "Minutes of Glory," published in his collection Secret Lives.  One of this man's fictional characters, Matigari, was rumored to have a real warrant out for his arrest, and this author was imprisoned under the Public Security Act for a play he co-wrote with a man named Mirii, I Will Marry When I Want.  Mugo betrays Thomas Robson's killer Kihika in one of this man's best-known works, while anther work features Wanja, Abdulla, Kerega, and Munira questioned about a fire that killed three brewery directors in Ilmarog.  FTP, name this author who abandoned English in favor of Kikuyu, whose works in
He wrote short stories such as one that details a rainmaker's influence on a town, "The Village Priest," and another in which a barmaid named Beatrice steals from a cab driver, "Minutes of Glory," published in his collection Secret Lives.  One of this man's fictional characters, Matigari, was rumored to have a real warrant out for his arrest, and this author was imprisoned under the Public Security Act for a play he co-wrote with a man named Mirii, I Will Marry When I Want.  Mugo betrays Thomas Robson's killer Kihika in one of this man's best-known works, while anther work features Wanja, Abdulla, Kerega, and Munira questioned about a fire that killed three brewery directors in Ilmarog.  FTP, name this author who abandoned English in favor of Kikuyu, whose works include A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood.
He wrote short stories such as one that details a rainmaker's influence on a town, "The Village Priest," and another in which a barmaid named Beatrice steals from a cab driver, "Minutes of Glory," published in his collection Secret Lives.  
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