It was here that he would meet Jenny a fellow reporter that would later become his wife. Joseph Michigan-based Herald Palladium where he was a police reporter. When he graduated he began working for the St. He also worked for the university paper before graduating in 1979. When he was in high school he used to write for the school paper and even came up with his own tabloid that got him reprimanded by the school principal.įollowing graduation from high school, John Grogan majored in English and journalism at Central Michigan University. The only thing he could have fun with at school was writing as compared to subjects such as science and mathematics. His mother had a huge gift and passion for storytelling which seems to have worn off on him.Īccording to him, he got into writing by default since he was terrible at everything. While he was growing up, his father worked for General Motors as an engineer even as his mother was a stay-at-home mother. It was this neighborhood in which he set “The Longest Trip Home” his second memoir. Shortly after he was born, his family moved to Harbor Hills away from the Orchard Lake Michigan neighborhood. John Grogan is a memoir, biography, and nonfiction author that was born in Detroit Michigan in 1957.
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