Oprah's book club: a Holocaust memoir
by Anna Johns, posted Jan 17th 2006 10:07AM
It looks as though Oprah Winfrey has been browsing the nonfiction aisles of the bookstore. While the authenticity of
her last Oprah's Book Club selection is still in question, she has moved
on to assign her faithful readers another memoir: Night, by Elie Wiesel. You may recognize his name for the
Nobel Peace Prize he won in 1986 for decades of writing against hatred and racism. Wiesel's first novel (he calls it a
memoir) chronicles his family's experience in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Oprah said the book "should be
required reading for all of humanity." Next month, Oprah will also hold a high school essay contest about the
book, in which 50 selected writers will be flown to Chicago to be part of the audience when Wiesel is a guest. She will
also visit Auschwitz with Wiesel, which should make for one very powerful hour of television.
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