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米奇·阿尔博姆（Mitch Albom， 1958年5月23日—），美国体育记者、小说家、《底特律自由报》专栏作家。

生平

阿尔博姆毕业于布兰戴斯大学和哥伦比亚大学。他撰写报纸专栏，主持广播节目，曾十度被美联社选为“最佳体育专栏作家”，体育专栏曾经集结出版。在成为作家之前，他当过业余拳击手、画家、音乐家。目前在许多个慈善机构里担任董事，现在和妻子定居于美国密歇根州。著有《最后14堂星期二的课》、《在天堂遇见的五个人》、《再给我一天》、《一点小信仰》、《时光守护者》、《来自天堂的第一通电话》、《六根蓝色魔弦》与《在天堂遇见的下一个人》。其书籍涵盖人生的种种，表达的手法以故事的形式让人重新思考“活着”的意义。所著的书都大获好评，其中《最后14堂星期二的课》、《在天堂遇见的五个人》及《一点小信仰》更被改编成电影。

Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958) is an American author, sports journalist, talk show host, and philanthropist. As of 2021, his books are reported to have sold 40 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition as a sports journalist early on in his writing career, Albom turned to writing inspirational stories and themes—a preeminent early one being Tuesdays with Morrie.

Early life

Albom was born on May 23, 1958, in Passaic, New Jersey; he lived in Buffalo, New York for a little while until his family settled in Oaklyn, New Jersey, just outside Philadelphia. He is Jewish. He graduated from Haddon Township High School in 1976.

Albom earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1979 from Brandeis University. After forays into music and journalism, he returned to academia to earn graduate master's degrees in journalism (at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism), and business (from Columbia University Graduate School of Business). Albom paid his tuition in part through playing the piano.

Career

As a columnist

While living in New York, Albom developed an interest in journalism. Still supporting himself by working nights in the music industry, he began to write during the day for the Queens Tribune, a weekly newspaper in Flushing, New York. His work there helped earn him entry into the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. To help pay his tuition he took work as a babysitter. In addition to nighttime piano playing, Albom took a part-time job with SPORT magazine.

After graduation he freelanced as a sportswriter for Sports Illustrated, GEO, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and covered Olympic sports events in Europe – including track and field and luge – paying his own way for travel, and selling articles once he was there. In 1983, he was hired as a full-time feature writer for The Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel, and was eventually promoted to columnist. In 1985, having won that year's Associated Press Sports Editors award for best Sports News Story, Albom was hired as lead sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press to replace Mike Downey, a popular columnist who had taken a job with the Los Angeles Times.

Albom's sports column quickly became popular. In 1989, when the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News merged weekend publications, Albom was asked to add a weekly non-sports column to his duties. That column ran on Sundays in the "Comment" section and dealt with American life and values. It was eventually syndicated across the country. Both columns continue in the Detroit Free Press.

Many of his columns have been collected into anthology books including Live Albom I (Detroit Free Press, 1988), Live Albom II (Detroit Free Press, 1990), Live Albom III (Detroit Free Press, 1992), and Live Albom IV (Detroit Free Press, 1995).

Albom also serves as a contributing editor to Parade magazine. His column is syndicated by Tribune Content Agency.

Game attendance error suspension

In 2005, Albom and four editors were briefly suspended from the Detroit Free Press after Albom wrote a column that stated that two college basketball players were in the crowd at an NCAA tournament game when in fact they were not. In a column printed in the April 3, 2005 edition, Albom described two former Michigan State University basketball players, both in the NBA, attending an NCAA Final Four semifinal game on Saturday to cheer for their school. The players had told Albom they planned to attend, so Albom, filing on his normal Friday deadline, but knowing the column could not come out until Sunday (after the game was over) wrote that the players were there. But the players' plans changed at the last minute and they did not attend the game.