Wiesel recounts his life's story, from his childhood in the Carpathian mountains, to his imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, to his career as a journalist, and winning the Nobel Peace prize.

The Watchmaker's Daughter tells the story of a child of two refugees: a watchmaker who saved lives within Dachau prison, and his wife, a gifted concert pianist about to make her debut when the Nazis seized power. In this memoir, Sonia Taitz is born into a world in which the Holocaust is discussed constantly by her insular concentration camp-surviving parents. This legacy, combined with Sonia's passion and intelligence, leads the author to forge an...

The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan. Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene. Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class...

Describes the life of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, and recipient of the Nobel Prize.

Determined to speak out more actively for both Holocaust survivors and the disenfranchised everywhere, Wiesel makes words his weapon, and in these pages we relive with him his unstinting battles.

A biography of the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1986 and a Holocaust survivor who is dedicated to keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive.

Profiles ten men and women who have written about or whose writings were influenced by their experiences during the Holocaust.