One Woman’s ‘Night’ Duty Pays Off

Ruth noticed One Woman’s ‘Night’ Duty Pays Off, a little story about a disagreement about where to shelve Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical first book, “Night,” about his experiences during the Holocaust.

Researcher Michele Lipson said Fiction, other people thought, Non-Fiction…so she asked the author.

“Twenty minutes later, the flight attendant comes back and hands me the note I wrote. On it, he wrote, ‘nonfiction.’ I was thrilled. My grandmother said, ‘Ah, you see. He didn’t even sign it.'”