"'I don't understand - you're the one who's dying, why don't you accept their sympathy? Why are you spending time advising people on THEIR lives,' " Albom recalled. What stunned Albom during his Tuesday visits was how others who came to cheer up Schwartz often left his office an hour later in tears because Schwartz turned the tables on them and asked them about their problems - their love life, divorce or job. There's no real substantial meaning but by that time it's too late." and then you find out it's not a good life. "And I'm happy to give him credit for that."Īs he faced death, Schwartz offered lessons in lifeĪmong Schwartz' regrets during his conversations with Albom was how young people grasped onto what he called "the major cultural values, like money status and power. "I'm a much different person than I was when I first started visiting him," Albom told NPR. It's one of the best-selling memoirs in the history of publishing. Doubleday says to date, Tuesdays with Morrie has sold nearly 18 million copies globally and has been translated into 48 languages. And mixed reviews in the early days.Įventually, readers spread the news by word of mouth. Some said Albom's story of reconnecting with his professor who was determined to teach a final class on life's lessons was too much of a "downer." But Doubleday took a chance 25 years ago this month and published Tuesdays with Morrie in a limited press run. Albom's only goal was to write a book to pay for Schwartz' medical bills.īut publisher after publisher rejected his book proposal. Mitch Albom was intent on chronicling the Tuesdays he spent with Morrie Schwartz, his favorite college professor who was facing Lou Gehrig's disease.
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