Mitch Albom

Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an award-winning American sportswriter, novelist, newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, syndicated radio host, and TV commentator. He is a graduate of Akiba Hebrew Academy, Brandeis University, and Columbia University. Before becoming a journalist, Albom was briefly an amateur boxer, nightclub singer, and pianist.

Novels
Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
For One More Day (2006)

Non fiction
Live Albom: The Best of Detroit Free Press Sports Columnist Mitch Albom (1988)
Bo (1989) (with Bo Schembechler)
Live Albom II (1990)
Live Albom III: Gone to the Dogs (1992)
The Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, the American Dream (1993)
Live Albom IV (1996)

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (1997)

Paperback: 212 pages
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New Ed edition (July 24, 2003)
ISBN: 0751529818

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The Five People You Meet In Heaven (2003)

Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.

Hardcover: 198 pages
Publisher: Hyperion (September 23, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN: 0786868716

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