Mitch Albom

Mitch Albom is an internationally renowned author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and TV broadcaster and philanthropist. His 13 books have collectively sold more than 35 million copies worldwide and have been published in 49 territories, in 45 languages, and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically acclaimed TV movies. A longtime panelist on ESPN's THE SPORTS REPORTERS, Albom has also penned films, plays, and a musical. For more than a decade, he was named top sports columnist in the nation by the Sports Editors of America, the highest honor in his field. In 2006, he founded S.A.Y. Detroit, an umbrella organisation that now operates nine charities dedicated to improving lives of the neediest Detroiters. He also runs an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti - the Have Faith Haiti Mission. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan.