Professor
Elie Wiesel
(
–
)
1928
2016
Boston University
;
Boston, MA
Writer (fiction writer, essayist); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
1986
Author of more than forty books including his autobiography, Night, plays, novels, essays, non-fiction works about Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic personalities, and two volumes of Memoirs: All Rivers Runs to the Sea and volume II And the Sea is Never Full. Winner of the 1986 Nobel Peave Prize, he continues his work in human rights speaking out on behalf of victims around the world.
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