MITCH ALBOM, 44, is a best-selling author, nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, nationally-syndicated radio host for ABC and flagship station WJR-AM in Detroit, and television commentator.

Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey) is a U.S. novelist and newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, radio host, and TV commentator.

Albom's first book was Bo: Life, Laughs, and the Lessons of a College Football Legend), a biography of Bo Schembechler that he helped co-write. The book was published in August, 1989 and became Albom's first New York Times best-seller.

Albom's next book was Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, The American Dream, a look into the starters on the University of Michigan men's basketball team that reached the NCAA championship game as freshmen in 1992 and again as sophomores in 1993.

Albom wrote Tuesdays With Morrie in 1997, a memoir of his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz, compiled from meetings with Morrie on Tuesday's during his fight with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). After being featured prominently on Oprah Winfrey's show, the book became a New York Times best-seller. Oprah Winfrey produced a television movie adaptation for ABC starring Hank Azaria and Jack Lemmon.
After the success of Tuesdays with Morrie, Albom's next foray was in fiction. His next book was The Five People You Meet in Heaven published in September of 2003. This book was a success and again launched Albom onto the New York Times best-seller list.

Albom's second fiction book, For One More Day, published in 2006, was about a son who gets to spend a day with his mother who died eight years earlier.