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Mitch Albom is the author of nine books, including the newest, For One More Day, published 9/26/06. His first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, (9/03) is the most successful U.S. hardback first novel ever and has to date sold 10 million copies worldwide Tuesdays With Morrie, (1997) his chronicle of time spent with a beloved but dying college professor, spent four years on the NY Times bestsellers list and is now the most successful memoir ever published. All three books were eventually turned into celebrated TV films. The critically acclaimed “Five People You Meet in Heaven” aired on ABC in winter, 2004. Oprah Winfrey produced the film version of "Tuesdays With Morrie" in December 1999; starring Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria. The film garnered four Emmy awards, including best TV film, director, actor and supporting actor. On December 9, 2007, the ABC Television Network, Harpo Films and Mitch Albom re-teamed for the 2-hour television event motion picture "Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom’s For One More Day" which starred Michael Imperioli and Ellen Burstyn.
In addition to his books, Mitch Albom has written extensively as a journalist and sportswriter for the last 23 years. Much of his work has appeared in The Detroit Free Press, the morning newspaper in Detroit, for which he writes two columns, a sports-oriented column and a Sunday issues column.
Albom has founded three charities in the metropolitan Detroit area: The Dream Fund, established in 1989, allows disadvantaged children to become involved with the arts. A Time To Help, founded in 1998, brings volunteers together once a month to tackle various projects in Detroit, including staffing shelters, building homes with Habitat for Humanity, and operating meals on wheels programs for the elderly. S.A.Y Detroit, Albom’s most recent effort, is an umbrella program to fund shelters and care for the homeless in his city. He also raises money for literacy projects through a variety of means including his performances with The Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of writers which includes Steven King, Dave Barry, Scott Turrow, Amy Tan and Ridley Pearson. Albom serves on the boards of various charities and, in 1999, was named National Hospice Organization's Man of the Year.
Mitch's Articles at the Detroit Free Press
- Todd Jones' thrill ride halts
- July 28, 2008
The ninth inning arrived Sunday and the Tigers had a lead. It was Todd Jones Time. Except, suddenly, it wasn't.
Jones, the mustached right-hander who has always been a stand-up guy, had been told to sit down. His job was gone. The reliever had been relieved. Fernando Rodney would be the new closer.
And so Jones, 40, sat through that ninth inning Sunday, watching Rodney pitch and wondering about his future. And after the game, alone by his locker, Jones bit back emotion as he spoke about the stripes that had been stripped.
"Jim (Leyland) called me into the office Saturday and told me I wasn't gonna be the closer anymore. He was going to pitch Fernando because he was throwing the best right now
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- Only the words 'comic' and 'book' matter to Hollywood now - July 27, 2008
I'm a very serious actor.
And I'm wearing a cape.
I've done Shakespeare in the Park. I've done Circle Rep. I've done experimental performance art workshops in which I played a half-eaten apple.
I'm a very serious actor.
And I'm wearing tights ...read more
- Israel-Hizballah trade reveals much about both sides - July 20, 2008
It was a ghastly trade, flesh and blood for two boxes of bones. Many criticized it. Some could not bear to watch it. But if anything showed the difference between Israel and Hizballah in last week's exchange of two dead Israeli soldiers for five live prisoners and 199 corpses, it was not the trade itself.
It was the reaction....read more
