12 Facts About Jeffrey Zaslow

Jeffrey Lloyd Zaslow was an American author and journalist, and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal.

Jeffrey Zaslow was born in 1958 in Broomall, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, one of four children of Naomi and Harry Jeffrey Zaslow.

Jeffrey Zaslow attended Marple Newtown High School, where he was student council president his senior year.

Jeffrey Zaslow wrote for the school paper and was in school plays while in junior high, starring in You Can't Take It with You.

Jeffrey Zaslow first worked at the Orlando Sentinel, as a writer for that newspaper's Florida magazine.

Jeffrey Zaslow then was a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal from 1983 to 1987 and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1987 to 2001.

Jeffrey Zaslow gained recognition as the author of an advice column called "All That Zazz", having won a competition at age 29 to replace Ann Landers at the Chicago Sun-Times.

In 2011, Jeffrey Zaslow collaborated with Gabby Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, on their memoir, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope.

Jeffrey Zaslow was twice named by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists as best columnist in a newspaper with more than 100,000 circulation and had received the Distinguished Column Writing Award from the New York Newspaper Publishers Association.

Jeffrey Zaslow appeared on such television programs as The Tonight Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, 60 Minutes, The Today Show and Good Morning America.

Jeffrey Zaslow married Sherry Margolis, a TV news anchor with WJBK television in Detroit, and together lived with their three daughters in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

Jeffrey Zaslow died on February 10,2012, at age 53 in a car accident on M-32 in Warner Township, Michigan while on tour for his non-fiction book The Magic Room.