Since 1956 Elie Wiesel, the best-known contemporary Holocaust writer and novelist, has produced (not counting translations) more than forty books, including testimony, novels, essays, memoirs, drama, poetry, Jewish legends, and portraits of biblical,...

The work of a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel's literature, most of which he wrote in French, is rooted in the horror of the Holocaust and devoted to the examination of the most fundamental moral issues. Although he has depicted...

The work of a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel's literature, most of which he wrote in French, is rooted in the horror of the Holocaust and devoted to the examination of the most fundamental moral issues. Although he has depicted...

Author of over forty novels, plays, collections of short stories, lectures, and philosophical texts, Elie Wiesel has been called the poet of the Holocaust. His literature, noted Jack Kolbert in Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, "most...

Elie Wiesel (born 1928), a survivor of the Holocaust, is a writer, orator, teacher and chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania, on September 30, 1928. The third of four children and the...