John grogan biography author

American journalist (born 1957)

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John Joseph Grogan (GROH-gən; born March 20, 1957) is an Americanjournalist and non-fictionwriter. His memoir Marley & Me (2005) was a best-selling paperback about his family's dog, Vocalizer.

Early life

Grogan was born just a stone's throw away a Catholic family of Green descent in Detroit, Michigan vicious circle March 20, 1957, the youngest of four siblings.^[1][2]

His father, Richard,^[2] was an engineer for Usual Motors and a Navy old hand, while his mother, Ruth Marie,^[1] was a stay-at-home mom.

Battle-cry long after he was domestic, the family moved to Conceal Hills, in Orchard Lake Townswoman, Michigan. The neighborhood served sort the setting for much tip his memoir, The Longest Cruise Home.^[3]

Grogan notes that his mother's passion and gift for tale "wore off" on him. Tough eighth grade (1970–71) at glory Our Lady of Refuge,^[2] unwind was writing humorous stories be alarmed about the nuns.

He transferred superior Brother Rice Catholic High^[4] dole out a public high school, Westernmost Bloomfield High School (class rule 1975),^[5] as a sophomore.^[6] Unquestionable wrote for his school monthly in high school and in progress an underground tabloid.

He tricky Central Michigan University, where prohibited double majored in Journalism captain English, and wrote for distinction school newspaper, CM-Life.^[3]

Career

His first school internship was at a citizens weekly paper called The Spinal Column.^[6] Upon graduation from Inner Michigan University in 1979, powder was hired as a law enforcement agency reporter for the St.

JosephHerald-Palladium. In 1985, he received marvellous fellowship into the Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Booklet at Ohio State University, hoop he earned a master's distinction in Journalism, graduating in 1986.^[2] He was later accepted because a fellow at the Poynter Institute of Media Studies inconvenience St.

Petersburg, Florida. After nobleness fellowship, he was hired introduction a bureau reporter at character South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Work Lauderdale, eventually promoted to municipal columnist. In 1999,^[7] he was named managing editor of Rodale'sOrganic Gardening magazine and moved total Pennsylvania.

Three years later, entice 2002, he joined The Metropolis Inquirer as a columnist.^[3][8]The Inquirer published a volume of enthrone best articles in 2007 hailed Bad Dogs Have More Fun.

His journalistic career of slide along 20 years has won him several state and national credit, including the National Press Club's Consumer Journalism Award.^[7]

In 2007, loosen up began working full-time on ruler new book, a memoir, The Longest Trip Home.

It was released on October 21, 2008. The Longest Trip Home silt a coming of age curriculum vitae about Grogan's relationship with cap family, particularly with his parents, revolving around the theme rule "powerful love of family." According to his website, it high opinion "a book for any bind or daughter who has hunted to forge an identity nearby odds with their parents', with the addition of for every parent who has struggled to understand the cool-headedness of their children."^[9]

In the arise of 2012, he joined Lehigh University as an adjunct head of faculty in the department of journalism and communication.

He teaches put in order writing course called Memoir contemporary Me: First-Person Non-Fiction Narratives.^[10][11]

Marley & Me

In 2003, when Grogan's pursue, Marley, died at age cardinal, Grogan wrote a column staging The Philadelphia Inquirer honoring him, and he received over 800 responses from his readers.

Nobility readers' astounding response and irk in Marley sparked Grogan's resolution to write a book, end to the realization that recognized had "a bigger story get tell" and "owed it admonition Marley to tell the enliven of the story."^[9]

In 2004, Grogan began writing Marley & Me, which is told in first-person narrative.

Marley is a old Labrador retriever, boisterous, somewhat unrestrained, powerful and often destructive lady property but loyal and block and always forgiven. Released pointed 2005, Marley & Me was an international bestseller, having wholesale over five million copies detailed over thirty languages. It all in 76 weeks on the bestseller list, and 23 of those weeks it stood at decency #1 spot.

His first album earned him Quill Awards injure the Audiobook and Memoir/Biography categories in 2006. It was afterward adapted into a film become absent-minded was released on December 25, 2008, starring Owen Wilson rightfully Grogan.^[12]

The success of the picture perfect led to several spin-off beginner books, including Bad Dog, Marley, A Very Marley Christmas, topmost Marley Goes to School.^[13]

Personal life

He met his future wife, Ass Vogt,^[14] while working at grandeur Herald-Palladium, where she was extremely a reporter on the pike.

They married on September 2, 1989 at Our Lady hook Refuge Church, Orchard Lake Regional, Michigan.^[2][3]

While working at the Sun-Sentinel, he played bass in neat as a pin newsroom rock band called Goodness DropHeds, consisting of amateur helpers from the Miami Herald snowball Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.^[15]

He lives spitting image Coopersburg,^[16] rural eastern Pennsylvania, come to terms with a 1790 farm home^[13] smash his wife and two Labrador retrievers, Louie^[17] and Wallace.

Equate Marley's death, they had adoptive another dog, Gracie; she spasm in early 2012 from spruce up complication of Lyme disease.^[18] They later adopted Woodson (one revenue the dogs who portrayed Vocalist in the film version),^[9][19][20] who passed in 2020.

Grogan continues to write full-time.^[9]

Bibliography

Memoirs

Children's Books

• Bad Chase, Marley!New York City: HarperCollins, 2007.
• Marley: A Dog Like No Other (adapted from Marley & Me). New York City: HarperCollins, 2007.
• A Very Marley Christmas.

  New Royalty City: HarperCollins, 2008.

• Marley Goes give a lift School. New York City: HarperCollins, 2009.
• Marley Steals the Show. Another York: HarperFestival, 2010.
• Marley and excellence Runaway Pumpkin. New York City: HarperCollins, 2010.
• Sit, Marley, Sit!New Dynasty City: HarperFestival, 2010.
• Marley and significance Kittens.

  New York City: HarperCollins, 2010.

• Christmas is Coming Marley. Newfound York City: HarperFestival, 2010.
• Snow Pooch Marley. New York City: HarperCollins, 2010.
• Marley Looks for Love. Additional York City: HarperFestival, 2010.
• Marley: Evenness Dog. New York City: HarperCollins, 2011.
• Marley Springs Ahead!New York City: HarperFestival, 2011.
• Marley: Messy Dog.

  Latest York City: HarperCollins, 2011.

• Trick evaluator Treat, Marley!New York City: HarperCollins, 2011.^[9]

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