Jeffrey Zaslow, West Bloomfield best-selling author, killed in northern Michigan crash
Jeffrey Zaslow, West Bloomfield best-selling author, killed in northern Michigan crash
5:29 PM, February 10, 2012 | Comments
By Patricia Montemurri
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer
Jeffrey Zaslow, the West Bloomfield-based author who wrote best-sellers such as "The Last Lecture” about a professor dying of pancreatic cancer and a recent book on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ recovery from a gunshot wound to the head, was killed Friday in a car accident in northern Michigan.
Mr. Zaslow, 53, was a Philadelphia native who was married to Sherry Margolis, a Fox 2 Detroit news anchor since 1987, and the father of three daughters.
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The station said Zaslow was killed in auto accident in northern Michigan, according to the Antrim County Sheriff’s Department. It happened around 9 a.m. on M-32, near Elmira. Police said Zaslow lost control of his car and was hit by a semi-truck on a snow-covered road. He had been in Petoskey previously for a book-signing.
Supremely outgoing and equally self-deprecating, Zaslow had a knack for ferreting out details that riveted a reader. He wrote books that inspired millions, unleashing the insight of Randy Pausch, the computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon whose lecture about dying from pancreatic cancer and achieving childhood fantasies became “The Last Lecture” (Hyperion, $21.95) in 2008. Another book, “The Girls from Ames” about 11 childhood friends in Iowa and their bonds while growing up, also became a bestseller.
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RIP Jeff.
