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1997 memoir by Mitch Albom

This article is about the book. For the film, see Tuesdays with Morrie (film).

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson is a 1997 memoir by American author Mitch Albom.

The book is about a series of visits Albom made to his former Brandeis University sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz was dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).^[1][2] Albom's subsequent memoir has been widely reviewed and has received critical attention after features by The Boston Globe and Nightline about Schwartz's dying.^{[1][3][4][5][6][not verified in body][clarification needed]}

The book spent 206 weeks on the New York Times Non-Fiction Bestsellers List and remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for several years;^[7] as of 2006, it was the best-selling memoir of all time.^[2]