W is for...Elie Wiesel and Jeanette Winterson
Saturday...how I have missed you. I intend to spend today relaxing and reading. Yay! But for you, fellow A-Zers, I'm bringing you two W authors: Elie Wiesel and Jeanette Winterson. Elie Wiesel (1928-) I first fell in love with Elie Wiesel as a Sophomore in high school. Night was required reading at that time and this book has stuck with me something fierce. I remember being so shocked by the opening scenes (I won't spoil it) and appalled by the atrocities discussed throughout the book. Since that time, I have been incredibly drawn to WWII and the Holocaust. So much so that I focused my graduate degree in Holocaust Literature. I credit Elie Wiesel for the love I have for this genre/point in history. Wiesel, a Romanian-born Jewish-American is a professor and political activist, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 due to his powerful message of peace and love despite having suffered the atrocities of the Holocaust....