And it's been really, really well-received - more than I never could have imagined," Albom said Tuesday. "The current book that I have out now is " The Stranger in the Lifeboat," which I'm very proud of.
And with several other novels amounting to upwards of 40 million copies of his work being sold worldwide, Albom tells Fox News Digital he has no plans of stopping anytime soon. While Albom's philanthropic endeavors are no doubt inspirational, so are his other novels.įollowing the success of " Tuesdays with Morrie," Albom went on to pen perhaps his most notable work, " The Five People You Meet In Heaven,". Headshot of author Mitch Albom, taken by Jenny Risher (Jenny Risher) I've got three little ones living with me at the moment because they have medical conditions," Albom said. So I'm taking care of them while they're here. I've got two kids up here now who go to college here in Michigan from the orphanage. "I'm there every month… I'm there for the kids, for protection, for medicals, for schooling. "Children are an absolute priority of my life… No good part of my life hasn't been around children or doing things for children," Albom told Fox News Digital. Inspired by Albom's first non-fiction book since " Tuesdays with Morrie's" publication, " Have a Little Faith," the Have Faith Haiti Mission & Orphanage is a special place of love and caring, dedicated to the safety, education, health and spiritual development of Haiti’s impoverished children and orphans.įounded in the 1980s, after falling on hard times following the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Albom and his A Hole in the Roof Foundation took over operations. MITCH ALBOM TALKS ABOUT MISSION OF HIS HAITI ORPHANAGE AMID COUNTRY'S INSTABILITY, KIDNAPPINGS That realm, Albom says - stressing the importance of giving - is his charity work. And so it really kind of pushed me into a different realm." "It really forced me to grow up, and it forced me to recognize the sadness in the world and the heartbreak in the world, but also to try to see the beauty of the world when you survive that and when you can get through it.
And not to one or ten or a hundred or a thousand, but tens of thousands of broken-hearted stories of grief and missing people." "And suddenly I was thrust into that role of a listener. Can I talk to you about her?" Albom said. And the last thing we did was read your book together. Instead of talking to me about sports… I would have people come up and say, "you know, my mother died of cancer. "What began to happen right after I wrote that book is that people started talking to me in a different way. Author Mitch Albom at the Library of Congress' National Book Festival in Washington D.C.
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