Jeffrey Zaslow, The Last Lecture author, killed in car crash at age 53
Jeffrey Zaslow — a former Chicago Sun-Times columnist who went on to sell millions of books with themes of compassion, inspiration and empathy — was killed Friday in a car crash in northern Michigan.
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