MITCHELL DAVID ALBOM
Background
Ø Personal
Background:
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Born: May 23, 1958 (now 56 years
old); Passaic, New Jersey, U.S
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Parents: Rhoda and Ira Albom
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Spouse: Janine Sabino (married since
1995)
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Occupation: novelist, sports journalist,
screenwriter, dramatist, radio & television broadcaster, musician,
playwright
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Grew
up wanting to be a cartoonist before switching to music. He taught himself to
play piano and played in bands like The Lucky Tiger Grease Stick Band
throughout his adolescence.
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Eventually
turned full-time to his writing, working as a freelance sports journalist in
New York for publications such as Sports Illustrated, GEO, and The Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Ø Education:
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High
school: New
Jersey & Pennsylvania
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Bachelor’s
Degree: In 1979
at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts majoring in Sociology
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Pursued
music and later volunteered to work for a local weekly paper: The Queens
Tribune
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Master’s
Degree: Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Journalism
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MBA
(Master of
Business Administration): Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business –
played his tuition partly through working as a piano player
Ø Awards
and Citations
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1999 – named National Hospice
Organization’s Man of the Year
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1985 – Associated Sports Editor Award
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2012
– Red Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports
Works
Published
Ø Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Ø The Five People You Meet in
Heaven (2003)
Ø For One More Day (2004)
Ø The Time Keeper (2012)
Ø Have a Little Faith: a True Story
(2009)
Ø The First Phone Call from Heaven
(2013)
Ø Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk,
The American Dream (1993)
Ø Bo: Life, Laughs, and Lessons of
a College Football Legend (1989)
Ø Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years
of Headlines, Deadlines, Punchlines (2001)
Ø The Live Albom (1931)
Ø Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock
Band Ever (of Autors) Tell All (2013)
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