Friday, May 25, 2012
Los Angeles Times
Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal reporter with a flair for inspirational stories who produced three nonfiction bestsellers, beginning with the 2008 book "The Last Lecture" about life lessons from a dying man, was killed in a car crash Friday. He was 53.
Zaslow's death was announced on the website of Detroit's Fox 2 News, where his wife, Sherry Margolis, is an anchor.
Zaslow was driving on a snow-covered highway in northern Michigan when he lost control and was hit by a truck.
A journalist for more than three decades, Zaslow had written three books before breaking into the bestseller ranks with "The Last Lecture."
He wrote the book with Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose farewell speech at Carnegie Mellon became an Internet sensation after Zaslow posted a video clip online with a Wall Street Journal article he had written about the talk.
Zaslow followed with two more bestsellers: "Highest Duty," co-written with Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot hailed as a hero after calmly landing his disabled passenger jet in New York's Hudson River and saving 155 lives; and "The Girls from Ames," a chronicle of the friendship shared by 11 women from rural Iowa.
Both were published in 2009.
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