Jeffrey Zaslow

Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, the best-selling author of "The Last Lecture" with Randy Pausch, a professor dying of cancer, and a recent book about former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, died Friday in a car accident in northern Michigan.

The Detroit Free Press and other news organizations reported that Zaslow, who lived in West Bloomfield, Mich., lost control of his car and was hit by a truck on a snow-covered road.
In 2006, Zaslow was in the audience at his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, when Pausch delivered his "Last Lecture." Pausch, a 45-year-old computer science professor, had recently learned he had inoperable pancreatic cancer.

"It was electric in that room," Zaslow told Britain's Independent newspaper in 2008. "I knew it affected everyone that was there. But I could not have foreseen what followed, even in my wildest dreams."

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