CHICAGO - In her first book club pick since allegations that some parts of her last selection were fabricated, Oprah Winfrey chose Elie Wiesel’s “Night,” a classic of Holocaust
literature sometimes labeled a novel but regarded by the author as a memoir.
On her show Monday, Winfrey announced the selection of Wiesel’s autobiographical account. The 77-year-old Wiesel, who wrote “Night” in the 1950s, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for a lifetime of writing and speaking against hatred, racism and genocide.
I have read a number of Wiesel's books ranging from novels to Chassidic stories to thoughts on biblical figures. They always make me think.
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