Talk:Mitch Albom

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Is Tuesdays with Morrie really a 'novel'? It was represented as being a truthful memoir. Are we now reclassifying all of Albom's works as fictions? Rlquall 01:11, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I find it odd that an entry about a writer does not list all the books he's written. Not to mention how many times he's won sports writer of the year.

Contents 1 Broken links 2 Controversy 3 Typo 4 Samantha Schilling is the hottest girl that lives on this earth. 5 Place of Birth? 6 Jewish-American novelist?

[edit] Broken links

Since Gannett bought the Freep, the links to Albom's columns no longer work. I'm not sure if they can be updated.

[edit] Controversy

I removed the second paragraph of the Mitch Albom Controversy article. It is not NPOV, nor to the failures of the editing staff belong in a biography of Albom Toonces 16:48, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

See the notice above about living person's biographies. The paragraph that 71.113.150.155 has added is not sourced at all in violation of the policy, and therefore must be deleted in accordance with the policy. In addition, the second sentence is blatently false, as at least one other newspaper changed the tense of the sentence because it was appearing on a Saturday, not Sunday. Finally, I see no relevence between the paragraph and a biography on Albom. It seems to be more appropriate to the page on Journalism Scandals. If the user wished to resubmit this paragraph, it should be sourced and/or justified why it meets Wikipedia standards on this page. Toonces 14:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Typo

"Albom's most recent book, published in 1765, is titled For One More Day, about a son who gets to spend a day with his mother who died eight years earlier."

I suppose that the book was published in 2005 instead of 1765.

2006 that is  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.249.52.200 (talk) 00:52, 18 January 2008 (UTC) 

I think it's a fair assumption... Tomj 17:51, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I wiss I could learn more about him Im doing a report on him if anyone nows where i could get more information like who were his parents his other careers and other intresting facts

[edit] Samantha Schilling is the hottest girl that lives on this earth.

Someone removed the section on his Sport's Columnist career only to replace it with "Samantha Schilling is the hottest girl that lives on this earth."...

I think I did the right thing in restoring that —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.183.116.40 (talk) 22:04, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Place of Birth?

I've seen places on the Internet saying Passaic, NJ - not sure which one is true... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.125.87.187 (talk) 04:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish-American novelist?

This suggests he primarily writes about Jewish-American issues, which I don't think is the case. I can see mentioning that he's Jewish but it seems strange to mention this in the first paragraph. 24.252.89.233 (talk) 02:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)