And I could just hear his voice ringing through every page. But it was longer, much longer before that, before he was ill, that he was writing it. It was 20 years ago that I discovered it, or thereabouts. And I talked to my father a lot about this book, so it all came rushing back to me, what his thoughts were, what his ideas were, why he was writing this book.Īnd I really hadn't thought about it for decades. And so I was living at home for three months. And I came back to the United States to gather my thoughts and my things. Rob Schwartz, Editor, 'The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully': Well, I had actually spoken with my father while he was writing the book just serendipitously. So, when you discovered your dad's manuscript in his desk drawer years after he passed away, what was going through your mind? We sat down this week to discuss the new book. He edited his father's words into 'The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully.' In the years after Morrie Schwartz's death, his son, Rob Schwartz, found a manuscript his father had written, but never published. Today, the book has sold 17 million copies in more than 50 editions around the world.That series of interviews would later inspire Mitch Albom's bestselling book 'Tuesdays With Morrie.' Now the best-selling memoir of all time, Tuesdays with Morrie began as a modest labor of love to help pay some of Schwartz’s medical bills. Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Read reviews and buy Tuesdays With Morrie (Reprint / Anniversary) (Paperback) by Mitch Albom at Target. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.įor Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. The lessons that Morrie imparts to Mitch arise from Morries desire to teach the world about death and how to live when ones dying, as he faces the inevitability of his own fast-approaching death.

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. The events of Tuesdays with Morrie are set in motion when Mitch finds out his beloved former college professor is dying and decides to visit him.

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