The College of Saint Elizabeth will host An Evening with Mitch Albom when the best-selling author returns to the stage of the Dolan Performance Hall, on campus in the Annunciation Center, Wednesday, September 14, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. His presentation Have a Little Faith is also the title of his latest best-selling book. The College is located at 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J. Tickets are priced at $25 each for the general public; $15 for students with valid identification and for senior citizens, 65 years old and older. For ticket information, call 973-290-4378 or email events@cse.edu.
Have a Little Faith documents Albom’s eight-year journey of how community and faith pull people together and how the potential is in all of us for a giving, meaningful life. His first claim to fame is as the author of the bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, which was made into a television movie starring Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria. That movie won three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and one Screen Actors’ Guild Award.
Albom followed with two more best-sellers The Five People You Meet in Heaven and For One More Day. His books have sold more than 28 million copies worldwide and have been published in 42 languages.
In addition to being the author of several, thought-provoking books, Albom is a highly respected sports writer. He is the lead sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press, where he writes a second column that appears in the “Comment” section on Sunday, dealing with American life and values. That column was eventually syndicated across the country. Albom was named best sports columnist in the nation a record 13 times by the Associated Press Sports Editors and won best feature writing honors from that same organization a record seven times. No other writer has received the award more than once. He has won more than 200 other writing honors from organizations including the National Headliner Awards, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and the National
Sportscasters and Sportswriting Association, and National Association of Black Journalists. In June 2010, Albom was awarded the Associated Press Sports Editors’ Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement, presented at the annual APSE convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A true Renaissance man, Albom is also a screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. He wrote the television screenplays for both For One More Day and The Five People You Meet in Heaven and has authored numerous pieces for the theater, including the off-Broadway version of Tuesdays With Morrie (co-written with Jeffrey Hatcher) that has seen more than 100 productions across the United States and Canada.
On The Mitch Albom Show, his daily radio talk show on WJR, he has interviewed such luminaries as Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, Tom Cruise, Cameron Crowe, Stephen King, Jon Voight, and Betty White. He also appears regularly on two ESPN shows: The Sports Reporters and Sports Center. He is a member of the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed of well-known writers such as Dave Barry, Stephen King, Amy Tan, and Scott Turow.
Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in more than 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.
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