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.

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 neediest citizens.

He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan. Learn more at www.mitchalbom.com and www.saydetroit.org.