Posted on 02/11/2012 2:23:59 PM PST by Albion Wilde
Jeffrey Zaslow, a longtime Wall Street Journal writer and best-selling author with a rare gift for writing about love, loss, and other life passages with humor and empathy, died at age 53 on Friday of injuries suffered in a car crash in northern Michigan.
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At the Journal his subjects ranged from the anguish of losing a car in the Disney World parking lot, to the power of fathers' lunchbox letters to their daughters, to the distinctive pain of watching a beloved childhood stadium go under the wrecking ball.
More recently, he became one of America's best-selling nonfiction writers, known internationally for such books as The Girls from Ames, the story of a 40-year friendship among 10 women, and The Last Lecture, about Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor who in 2007 was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given only a few months to live...
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He was twice named best columnist by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and in 2000 he received its Will Rogers Humanitarian Award.
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Mr. Zaslow is survived by his wife, who is an anchor at a Fox television station in Detroit; three daughters...and his parents...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Links to several of his columns are at the WSJ article site.
Very sad. He was a good writer and I enjoyed his columns too.
In an earlier life, I used to go to the Zazz Bash at Navy Pier
The accident was entirely Clintonesque ~ but with only one truck. That's almost certainly Eric Holder's MO.
Well, that’s interesting. I can’t imagine what he would have discovered (except for the fact that the press didn’t report that the would-be assassin was actually a flaky lefty, but we all knew that immediately).
One-car accidents are always suspicious. It’s always possible that the driver fell asleep or some bizarre thing happened, such as a heart attack, loss of steering power, etc. But often it’s suicide or a car being forced off the road by another car, although not necessarily intentionally.
It’s very sad in any case. If he was doing an investigation, I hope somebody has his records...and a bodyguard.
Yup. Especially those one-car accidents where the driver loses control on a snowy highway and whacks a semi head-on.
Sometimes conspiracies are possible or even probable. The only conspiracy here is the forces of nature.
Having skidded on ice myself and lost control, I just don’t think it is suspicious. He was in his home state at the time, not in Arizona. He was a human interest writer first and foremost, not an investigative journalist; and although I liked his stuff (cannot recall reading any of his opinions about politics), he was most probably a Democrat, so why would he be a target like John Wheeler?
But who knows.
Obviously you haven't driven M-32 in the winter. I've done it from Atlanta MI to US-131 (past where this happened) and it's a bit nerve-wracking even for experienced snow drivers.
This isn't anything more what the Sheriff said, a sad winter weather car accident that claimed a life, a quite common occurrence.
RIP.
No studded tires in Michigan.....
I had a similar event on I-70 in Ohio. I didn’t lose control myself, but was hit by a merging 18 wheeler. The cable center barrier likely saved my life. Shredded my Saturn, but kept me out of the oncoming traffic.
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