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Morrie Schwartz was a sociology professor at Brandeis University who was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at the age of 77 in August 1994. [9] The son of Russian immigrants, Schwartz had a difficult childhood, indelibly marked by the death of his mother and his brother's infection with the polio virus.
After Albom phoned Schwartz, he made a series of trips to visit him in the final weeks of Schwartz's life as he was gradually overtaken by ALS. The book recounts the fourteen visits Albom made, their conversations, Schwartz's lectures, and his life experiences. The book was adapted into a television film in 1999, starring Jack Lemmon as Schwartz.
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, whose ALS was diagnosed in 1963, had the disease for 55 years, the longest recorded time one had the disease. He died at the age of 76 in 2018. The 11th century monk Hermann of Reichenau had a lifelong disease that is strongly believed to have been ALS. This would make him one of the earliest known patients of ...
Brooke Eby shares her Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, diagnosis at age 33 and details her outlook on life after getting a terminal prognosis in her 30s. I thought I was too young to have ALS. Then ...
In the film, Albom (Hank Azaria) bonds with his former professor, Morrie Schwartz (Jack Lemmon), who is dying of ALS, over a series of visits. Tuesdays with Morrie was produced by Oprah Winfrey 's Harpo Films , and was filmed in Los Angeles and Santa Clarita, California .
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Albom's breakthrough book came about after he was rotating the TV channels and viewed Morrie Schwartz's interview with Ted Koppel on ABC News Nightline in 1995, in which Schwartz, a sociology professor, spoke about living and dying with a terminal disease, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or
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