Mitch Albom is a novelist, newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, syndicated radio host, and television commentator.

Albom wrote the best-seller novel, Tuesdays With Morrie, which Oprah Winfrey produced a television movie for ABC based on the book and starred Hank Azaria and the late Jack Lemmon. The television movie adaptation of Tuesdays with Morrie was the most watched television movie of 1999 and won four Emmy Awards. His most recent novel is the New York Times best-seller, The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

Mitch Albom appears regularly on ESPN's Sports Reporters and Sportscenter.

Mitch Albom is also part of the rock & roll band, The Rock Bottom Remainders whose members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Stephen King, Roy Blount Jr, Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, and Greg Iles.

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