About Mitch Albom

By Mary Faddoul and Ben Strack

New Jersey native Mitch Albom began his professional life as a musician traveling throughout Europe, went on to get master’s degrees in both journalism and business in hopes of a career that would allow him “to, you know, save the world” and moved around before arriving at his current position at the Detroit Free Press as a sports columnist.

Albom began his career as an author with sports-oriented works, such as Bo — an autobiography of college football coach Bo Schembechler— as well as Fab Five, about the University of Michigan basketball team’s 1991 freshman class that reached consecutive Final Fours.

Later in 1997, he gained inspiration to writeTuesdays with Morrie — his most famous book — upon a life-changing reunion with his dying college professor. The novel chronicles Albom’s time with Morrie during the last months of his life.

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