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| Born | May 23, 1958 Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, Columnist |
| Genres | Sports Non-Fiction, Fiction |
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Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey) is a best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction, a newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press and a radio host and TV commentator. Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. A columnist is a Journalist who writes material on a regular basis for publication in a series The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily Newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic
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History
Albom attended Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia,[1] followed by Brandeis University, and later received Master of Journalism and Master of Business Administration degrees from Columbia University. Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy is a Pluralistic Jewish Day School, for grades 6 to 12 located in Merion, Pennsylvania. Brandeis University is a private research University with a Liberal arts focus located in Waltham Massachusetts, United States. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. He began writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer after graduating. The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily Newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United [2]
Sports columnist
Albom first gained fame as a sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press newspaper. Presently, his sports and general-interest columns appear on a sporadic basis.
Each year his sports columns were entered in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio 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. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
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. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999
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. A bestseller is a Book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade
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 University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research The book was published in November of 1994 and also became a New York Times best-seller.
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 Albom's meetings with Morrie on Tuesdays during his fight with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). Tuesdays with Morrie is a bestselling nonfiction book by American Writer Mitch Albom, published in 1997 (ISBN 0-385-48451-8 Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Morris "Morrie" Schwartz, ( 20 December, 1916 - 4 November, 1995) was an American educator Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ( ALS, sometimes called Maladie de Charcot, or in the United States Lou Gehrig's Disease) is a progressive After being featured prominently on Oprah Winfrey's show, the book became a New York Times best-seller. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29 1954 often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American Oprah Winfrey produced a television movie adaptation for ABC, starring Hank Azaria as Albom and Jack Lemmon as Morrie. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29 1954 often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. Hank Albert Azaria (born April 25 1964 is an American Film and Television Actor, director, Comedian and voice artist John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8 1925 &ndash June 27 2001 was an American Actor known principally for his comedic roles It was the most-watched TV movie of 1999 and won four Emmy Awards. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar)
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. In his first novel Mitch Albom recounts the life and death of a simple yet dignified old man Eddie Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. 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. Jonathan Vincent Voight (born December 29 1938 is an Academy Award -winning American film Actor. Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932) is an American Academy Award -winning actress James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966) commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an Emmy -winning and Golden Globe Award Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American Actor, musician and playwright
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. For One More Day is a 2006 novel taken place during the mid 1900's by the acclaimed sportswriter and author Mitch Albom. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 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. Harpo Productions is an incorporated US-based Multimedia production company founded by Media mogul Oprah Winfrey
Controversies
In 2005, Albom was briefly suspended from the Detroit Free Press for pre-writing and submitting an article about an event that didn't occur. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [3] In a column printed in the Sunday, April 3 edition, Albom described two former Michigan State basketball players, both now in the NBA, attending an NCAA Final Four semifinal game on Saturday to cheer for their school. Michigan State University ( MSU) is a co-educational public Research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA. The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single elimination Tournament held each spring featuring 65 College basketball teams in the The players had told Albom they planned to attend, so Albom, filing on the 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 did not attend the game.
The columnist issued an explanation regarding his misreporting that the players attended the game but never apologized for fabricating particular descriptions.
Albom was called to testify at Chris Webber's perjury trial. Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III (born March 1 1973 in Detroit, Michigan) better known as Chris Webber and nicknamed C-Webb, is a retired 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" players, the subject of a book by Albom. Webber and three other Wolverines who played in the 1990s were alleged to have received over $290,000 in improper loans from a man considered to be a booster of the University of Michigan, although amounts were never verified. The four 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. [4]
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 part of a rock band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, whose members are all published writers. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African The Rock Bottom Remainders is a Rock and roll band consisting of published writers most of them both amateur musicians and popular English-language Book, Magazine He also co-wrote the Warren Zevon song Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song) which featured David Letterman singing vocals. Warren William Zevon (January 24 1947 &ndash September 7 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American rock Singer-songwriter and Musician David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American late-night Talk show host and Comedian and the host since 1993
Albom appears regularly on ESPN's The Sports Reporters and SportsCenter. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to The Sports Reporters is a sports talk show that airs on ESPN at 10 a SportsCenter is a daily Sports news Television show and the flagship program of American Cable network ESPN since the network His radio show airs on WJR radio in Detroit from 5 to 7 p. WJR (760 AM) is a Radio station in Detroit, Michigan, United States. m. ET, with Mondays having an extra hour for just sports as of 2006. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The radio show was simulcast on MSNBC in 2001. MSNBC is a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the United States and available in Canada.
References
- ^ Speaker 'Travels' Back in Time for Ambassadors Dinner, November 15, 2007, Jewish Exponent
- ^ 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. Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
- ^ Hagy, Alyson, "Webber's World", nytimes. com, February 23, 2003. Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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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