Over 20 million copies of one of the most famous memoirs of all-time, “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson” written by Mitch Albom, have been sold since its 1997 publication, and to this day it remains on many a college’s required reading list.
After not seeing his former professor, Morrie Schwartz, for 16 years after his graduation from Brandeis, Mitch met with Morrie on 14 Tuesdays in 1995 as part of his professor’s final class called, “The Meaning of Life.” Morrie was aware that Mitch’s book was being written, but did not live to see its tremendous success as a book and as the basis for an Emmy-Award Winning film starring Jack Lemmon as Morrie, and Hank Azaria as Mitch.
Twenty-eight years after Morrie Schwartz passed away, his son Rob Schwartz, has edited his father’s last work, and posthumously published what has become a bestselling new book, “The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully.”
Rob is a journalist and entrepreneur, having founded a number of companies, both in Japan and the US, and held executive positions in others. He’s produced numerous film and music projects with international teams…
