Publication Order of Heaven Books
| The Five People You Meet in Heaven | 2003 |
| The Next Person You Meet in Heaven | 2018 |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| For One More Day | 2006 |
| The Time Keeper | 2012 |
| The First Phone Call from Heaven | 2013 |
| The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto | 2015 |
| The Stranger in the Lifeboat | 2021 |
| The Little Liar | 2023 |
| Twice | 2025 |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Human Touch: A Story in Real Time | 2020 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Live Albom | 1988 |
| Bo (With: Bo Schembechler) | 1989 |
| Live Albom II | 1990 |
| Live Albom III | 1992 |
| Fab Five | 1993 |
| Live Albom IV | 1995 |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | 1997 |
| Have a Little Faith | 2009 |
| Finding Chika | 2019 |
About Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom is an American author and sports journalist, born in Passaic, New Jersey, on 23 May 1958. He is best known for the memoir “Tuesdays with Morrie” (1997) and the novel “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” (2003). As of 2021 his books were reported to have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
Albom grew up in Oaklyn, New Jersey, and took a degree in sociology at Brandeis University in 1979, followed by master’s degrees in journalism and business at Columbia University. He worked as a musician and freelance sportswriter before joining the Detroit Free Press as lead sports columnist in 1985, a paper he still writes for. His early books came out of that work: the “Live Albom” column collections, “Bo” (1989), written with the football coach Bo Schembechler, and “Fab Five” (1993), about the University of Michigan basketball team.
His breakthrough came after he saw his former Brandeis professor Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of ALS, interviewed on television in 1995. Albom began visiting him every Tuesday, and sought a publisher for a book about the visits to help pay Schwartz’s medical bills. “Tuesdays with Morrie” stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 205 weeks and has sold over 20 million copies. A 1999 television film starring Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria won four Emmy Awards.
Albom then turned to fiction. “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” was filmed for television in 2004 with Jon Voight, and its sequel, “The Next Person You Meet in Heaven”, followed in 2018. His other novels include “For One More Day” (2006), “The Time Keeper” (2012), “The First Phone Call from Heaven” (2013), “The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto” (2015), “The Stranger in the Lifeboat” (2021) and “The Little Liar” (2023), which is set during the German occupation of Greece in the Second World War.
He returned to non-fiction with “Have a Little Faith” (2009) and “Finding Chika” (2019), a memoir of a Haitian girl from the orphanage he and his wife Janine have operated in Port-au-Prince since 2010. In Detroit he founded the charity S.A.Y. Detroit in 2006. His most recent novel is “Twice” (2025), about a man who has been able to relive any moment of his life since the age of eight.
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