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Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-seven languages worldwide. He has written seven number-one New York Times bestsellers – including Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years – award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports halls of fame and is the recipient of the 2010 Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement. After bestselling memoir Finding Chika and "Human Touch," the weekly serial written and published online in real-time to raise funds for pandemic relief, his latest works are a return to fiction with The Stranger in the Lifeboat (Harper, November 2021) and The Little Liar (Harper, November 2023). He founded and oversees SAY Detroit, a consortium of nine different charitable operations in his hometown, including a nonprofit dessert shop and food product line to fund programs for Detroit's most underserved citizens. He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, which he visits monthly. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan.
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The lead character
in "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" is a grizzled war veteran
named Eddie, who dies on his 83rd birthday. The character, Mitch Albom says, was
inspired by his real-life uncle, Edward Beitchman, who was also a World War II
veteran, who also died at 83, and also lived a life like that of the fictional
character, rarely leaving his home city, and often feeling that he didn't
accomplish what he should have.
Mitch Albom says.... I tell stories. For awhile I told stories through music
and then I told stories in newspapers and later I told stories in books, the
best known being Tuesdays with Morrie, a story about my old teacher who
was living to the fullest even as he was dying.
But before I started telling stories, I heard them. My family loved to rattle
them off, especially the senior members, grandparents and uncles and aunts,
usually around a Thanksgiving table, always with plates of food close at hand.
These were stories about family, history, war, some might have even been closer
to fairy tales. Someone would inevitably say, "Oh, no, not THAT one again,"
but we would settle in and listen anyhow. I never minded. In fact, I loved it.
Those stories made me feel part of something, gave ...
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