About the Author: Mitch Albom
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On May 23, 1958, Mitchell David Albom was born in Passaic, New Jersey. Throughout his teen years, Mitch was drawn into the world of music. He played the piano and was in a band called The Lucky Tiger Grease Stick Band. Even throughout his attendance in Brandeis University, he was a dedicated musician and performed around America and Europe. However, around his twenties, Mitch began to take interest in writing, more specifically, journalism. He then returned to graduate school to pursue his interest in journalism and earned a master’s degree. He began to place all his efforts into writing and received employment in New York as a sports journalist. Mitch then married Janine Sabino in 1995, which was around the same time he came into contact with Morrie Schwartz, his previous professor, and the basis of his first novel, Tuesdays with Morrie.
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Promotional posters of the various movie adaptions of Albom's novels.
Mitch Albom’s novels have sold over thirty million copies around the world. Becoming an internationally distinguished and successful author, television and radio broadcaster, journalist, screenwriter, and musician playwright are just a few of his accomplishments. Albom’s novels have been published in over forty countries and translated into over forty different languages. His three best-selling novels, For One More Day, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and Tuesdays with Morrie, have been adapted into television movies that have garnered much praise. Mitch Albom’s most significant piece of literature is his first novel, Tuesdays with Morrie. His other outstanding novels are The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Have a Little Faith, The Time Keeper, and For One More Day.
Mitch Albom doing charity work in Haiti.
Throughout his life, he has created a long list of accomplishments. His novels most especially have made him into a notable American author. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, his first novel, is the most successful first adult American hardcover novel to date. His other books, Tuesdays with Morrie and For One More Day, have topped the New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers. Also, in 2009, Have a Little Faith, was nominated by Oprah.com as the best nonfiction book of the year. Albom also wrote the screenplays for his novels, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and For One More Day, which have both had over one hundred productions across Canada and the United States. At the age of fifty-two, the Associated Press Sports Editors gave Mitch the Red Smith Award; making him the youngest winner of the award. Mitch Albom has also created seven charities that help improve the lives of the homeless and destitute. A few of the organizations include: A Time to Help, The Dream Fund, S.A.Y. Detroit Family Health Clinic, and A Hole in the Roof Foundation.