"Think of Mitch Albom as the Babe Ruth of popular literature, hitting the ball out of the park every time he's at bat." - Time
"Albom allows meaning, whether his own or the reader's, to emerge with a quiet, confident grace." - Publishers Weekly
"A fearless explorer of the wishful and magical." - James McBride, author of The Color of Water
"Albom has the ability to make you cry in spite of yourself." - Boston Globe
"Albom's gift for plucking heartstrings and finding meaning in life, which has endeared him to millions, is on full display." - Booklist
"He writes like a literary Spielberg: with great impact and emotion, and without being afraid of pathos." - Brigitte (Germany)
"Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary." - Cecilia Ahern , author of PS, I Love You
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 work is a return to fiction with The Stranger in the Lifeboat (Harper, November 2021). 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. Learn more at www.mitchalbom.com, www.saydetroit.org, and www.havefaithaiti.org.