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Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey) is a Jewish-American novelist and newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, radio host, and TV commentator. is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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History
Albom attended Brandeis University, and later received Master of Journalism and Master of Business Administration degrees from Columbia University. He began writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer after graduating.[1] Brandeis University is a private university located in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. ...
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Sports columnist Albom first gained fame as a sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press newspaper. Presently, his columns appear on a sporadic basis. During that time, Albom also provided regular sports updates on local radio stations.
Each year his sports columns were entered in the Associated Press Sports Editors contest. Albom competed against columnists at newspapers with a circulation above 250,000. All entries are judged anonymously. Preliminary judging is done by more than 90 sports editors, then senior news executives at papers throughout the country make the final awards. The judges change each year. Albom is the most decorated winner in the history of the contest. Between 1985 and 2000, Albom won first place in column writing thirteen times, and between 1991 and 2000 he won first prize in feature story writing seven times. The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ...
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During a strike at the Detroit Free Press in the mid-1990s that gained considerable national attention, Albom crossed the picket line and returned to work. For the band, see 1990s (band). ...
Books
Sports books Albom's first book was Bo: Life, Laughs, and the Lessons of a College Football Legend, a biography of Bo Schembechler that he helped co-write. The book was published in August, 1989 and became Albom's first New York Times best-seller. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
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Albom'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. The book was published in November of 1994 and also became a New York Times best-seller. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM, U-M or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ...
Albom has also published Live Albom volumes I-V, which are compilations of his newspaper articles.
Memoir Albom wrote Tuesdays With Morrie in 1997, a memoir of his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz, compiled from meetings with Morrie on Tuesdays during his fight with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). After being featured prominently on Oprah Winfrey's show, the book became a New York Times best-seller. Oprah Winfrey produced a television movie adaptation for ABC starring Hank Azaria and Jack Lemmon. The television movie adaptation of Tuesdays with Morrie was the most watched television movie of 1999 and won four Emmy Awards. Tuesdays with Morrie is a bestselling non-fiction book by American writer Mitch Albom, published in 1997 (ISBN 0-385-48451-8). ...
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrigs Disease, or Maladie de Charcot) is a progressive, usually fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by the degeneration of motor neurons, the nerve cells in the central nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement. ...
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Fiction After the success of Tuesdays with Morrie, Albom's next foray was in fiction. His next book was The Five People You Meet in Heaven published in September of 2003. This book was a success and again launched Albom onto the New York Times best-seller list. It was turned into a television movie for ABC, starring Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Imperioli and Jeff Daniels. The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom, published in 2003. ...
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John Vincent Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932 as Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ...
James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966 in Mount Vernon, New York), commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos. ...
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Albom's second fiction book, For One More Day, published in 2006, was about a son who gets to spend a day with his mother who died eight years earlier. Again a New York Times best-seller, the success of the book propelled Oprah Winfrey to adapt For One More Day into a television movie which aired on December 9, 2007, and starred Burstyn and Imperioli. Harpo Films produced the film under its "Oprah Winfrey Presents" banner for ABC. For One More Day is a 2006 novel by the acclaimed sportswriter and author Mitch Albom. ...
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Controversies In 2005, Albom was suspended from the Detroit Free Press for pre-writing and submitting an article about an event that didn't occur. [2] In a column printed April 3, Albom described two former Michigan State basketball players, both now in the NBA, attending an NCAA Final Four semifinal game on Saturday. The players told Albom they planned to attend, and Albom, filing Friday before the game, wrote as if the players were there, including that they wore Michigan State green. But the players' plans changed and they never attended. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The playoff term Final Four was originally popularized to refer to the final four teams in the NCAA Basketball Tournament; these are the champions of the tournaments four regional brackets, and the only teams remaining on the tournaments final weekend. ...
He issued an apology regarding his misreporting that the players attended the game but never apologized for fabricating particular descriptions.
Albom was forced to testify at Chris Webber's perjury trial. Webber had been a member of the University of Michigan's basketball teams of the early 1990s. He was a member of the "Fab Five" and the subject of a book by Albom. Webber and 3 Wolverines who played later in the mid to late 1990s were alleged to have received over $600,000 in improper loans from a man considered to be a booster of the University of Michigan, although amounts were never verified. The 4 other Fab Five members were not implicated and the school was cleared of any direct involvement or knowledge of the loans, which were made to players and their families. [3] For the Canadian-born former BBL basketball player, see Chris Webber (Canadian basketball player). ...
Personal life After his experiences with Morrie Schwartz, subject of Tuesdays with Morrie, he started a Detroit volunteer group in 1998 called "A Time to Help". Every month, the group (affiliated with Volunteer Impact) does a project to help serve and improve the Detroit community. Projects have included work at homeless shelters, food banks, senior citizens homes, and orphanages. Albom and radio co-host Ken Brown lead each project and try to use the group as a catalyst to increase volunteerism.
Albom is also part of a rock band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, whose members are all published writers. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
The Rock Bottom Remainders is a rock & roll band consisting of published writers, most of them both amateur musicians and popular English-language book, magazine, and newspaper authors. ...
Albom also co-wrote the Warren Zevon song Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song) which featured David Letterman singing vocals. Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock and roll musician and songwriter. ...
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.) is an Emmy Award-winning American television host and comedian. ...
Albom appears regularly on ESPN's The Sports Reporters and SportsCenter. His radio show airs on WJR radio in Detroit from 5 to 7 p.m. ET, with Mondays having an extra hour for just sports as of 2006. The radio show was simulcast on MSNBC in 2001. ESPN, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...
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References - ^ Pennsylvania Center for the Book (2008). Mitch Albom. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
- ^ Johnson, Peter, "Will Albom's woes taint journalism?", usatoday.com, April 13, 2005.
- ^ Hagy, Alyson, "Webber's World", nytimes.com, February 23, 2003.
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External links - Mitch Albom's official website
- The Mitch Albom Show - official talk show website
- Tuesdays With Morrie - book website
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven - book website
- For One More Day - book website
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