SETTING: Heaven and Ruby Pier from the 1920's through the 2000's Most recently, Oprah Winfrey Presents Mitch Albom’s For One More Day aired on ABC in December 2007 and earned Ellen Burstyn a Screen Actors Guild nomination.

Directed by Lloyd Kramer, the film was the most watched TV movie of the year, with 19 million viewers. The critically acclaimed Five People You Meet in Heaven aired on ABC in winter, 2004. The film garnered four Emmy awards, including best TV film, director, actor and supporting actor. Oprah Winfrey produced the film version of Tuesdays With Morrie in December 1999, starring Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria. His first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is the most successful US hardcover first adult novel ever.Īll three of Albom’s best sellers have been turned into successful TV movies. His visits with Schwartz would lead to the book Tuesdays with Morrie, which moved Mitch away from sports and began his career as an internationally recognized author. That same year he re-encountered Morrie Schwartz, a former college professor who was dying of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

area briefly before settling in Oaklyn, New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia. Mitch was born on in Passaic, New Jersey, the middle of three children to Rhoda and Ira Albom. His books have collectively sold over 28 million copies worldwide have been published in forty-one territories and in forty-two languages around the world and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies. Is an internationally renowned and best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster and musician.

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