Jeffrey Zaslow
Journalist and bestselling coauthor
Jeffrey Zaslow was an American journalist and Wall Street Journal columnist who coauthored The Last Lecture and a memoir by Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger.
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American Born 1958 in Broomall, United States Died 2012
About Jeffrey Zaslow
Jeffrey Zaslow (1958 to 2012) was an American author and journalist. He wrote a Wall Street Journal column about life transitions, and he was widely known for coauthoring books as well as writing many on his own. He grew up in Philadelphia and studied creative writing at Carnegie Mellon. His column about a final lecture by Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch led to The Last Lecture, which they wrote together. It reached number one on bestseller lists worldwide. He also worked with Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly on GABBY, and wrote The Girls From Ames, about female friendship. In 2009 he coauthored the memoir of Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River. His last book, The Magic Room, came out in January 2012. He died the following month, aged 53, in a car crash during the book's promotional tour.