Elie Wiesel's writing and influence remembered after his death
Tributes have poured out in the wake of the death of Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel at the age of 87.
Wiesel's book, Night, was one of the seminal works about the experience of prisoners in Nazi concentration camps and is widely read by young adults in school.
His death was announced by Israel's Yad Veshem Holocaust Memorial, according to the Associated Press.
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Fellow authors, citizens and public figures mourned the author's death on Twitter, remembering him as a towering moral figure who had a profound influence.
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UPDATE: July 3, 2016, 11:26 a.m. AEST Tweets added.
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Alex Hazlett is a Deputy Managing Editor at Mashable. Based out of Mashable's New York HQ, she previously ran the company's weekend coverage, oversaw the in-house syndication program, and was an assistant editor for general news. Ask her about newsletters.An Ohio native, Alex earned degrees in economics and journalism at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. During college, she also spent time in the Middle East studying Arabic and journalism.
