Mitch Albom

Mitch Albom is an author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, broadcaster, and musician. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1958, he earned a sociology degree from Brandeis University and graduate degrees in journalism and business from Columbia University. He began his writing career as a sports journalist before gaining international recognition with Tuesdays with Morrie, followed by works including The Five People You Meet in Heaven, For One More Day, Have a Little Faith, The First Phone Call from Heaven, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven, and Finding Chika.

Albom returned to fiction with The Stranger in the Lifeboat, which debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. His books have collectively sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and have been published in dozens of languages.