The book was published in August 1989 and became Albom's first New York Times bestseller.Īlbom's next book was Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, The American Dream, a look into the starters on the University of Michigan men's basketball team that reached the NCAA championship game as freshmen in 1992 and again as sophomores in 1993. ÂĪlbom's first non-anthology book was Bo: Life, Laughs, and the Lessons of a College Football Legend (Warner Books), an autobiography of football coach Bo Schembechler co-written with the coach. His articles during his time at Detroit Press were anthologized in The Live AlbomÂ in 1988, which went on to 3 additional volumes, II, III, and IV. Album began writing as a journalist, becoming one of the most award-winning sports writers of his time while at the Detroit Press.

Before becoming a journalist, Albom was briefly an amateur boxer, nightclub singer, and pianist. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and Columbia University. While Albom’s novels all seem to have a supernatural element to their lessons, they generally leave the readers with something to contemplate about their own lives in a heartwarming and introspective way.Mitchell David Albom (born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA) is an award-winning sportswriter novelist, newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, syndicated radio host, and TV commentator.Īlbom has published 7 books that have sold more than 35 million copies. The First Phone Call from Heaven details a phenomenon in a small town in Michigan where people begin to receive phone calls from their loved ones-who are deceased. The Time Keeper is a novel about Father Time, and how he must save two people on earth-a teenager and a businessman-in order to regain his own freedom. They all have important lessons to teach him, too, which can also be important lessons to use to live meaningful lives while we’re still here.įor One More Day follows Chick as he attempts suicide and is suddenly granted one more day with his mother who died eight years before. His second book, the novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven follows the journey of Eddie as he meets all of the people who make sense of the biggest questions he had about his life when he was alive.

It details special visits with Albom’s old professor Morrie who is dying of ALS, and the lessons Morrie wants Mitch to tell the world about how to live a meaningful life with the time that we have. His first book, the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie is probably his most well-known. Albom was born in 1953 in New Jersey, and spent most of his career as a journalist and sports broadcaster. His stories bring hope out of things like death and illness, in that there is hope that there is a life after death and still lots of lessons to learn. Mitch Albom is an important author in the 21st century.

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