Chol Gai Nhial-Atungtil is originally from the Sudan and is currently residing in the United States. The Memoir of my Childhood and Agonies of War is his first Book as an author with which he wishes to let the world know about his experiences from living in a war zone. Through his book, he describes how he only knew of two things as a child - guns and death. His life was centered around terror and war. He survives the two decades of living in a war territory and eventually made it out of all of it alive. as a child, Chol was separated from his family, siblings, and village to join the military at the young age and he shared some amazing experiences in his book.
Born in 1976 as Chol Gai Nhial-Atungtil to a father and mother who believed in an African Ancestral Spirit. but in 1985 at the age of ten year old, Chol converts to Christianity and he was baptized and given name Philip as a symbol of Christianity to differentiate him from Muslim and those who believed in African ancestral spirits.