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Author of Marley & Me John Grogan was a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer when he wrote a column saying goodbye to his incorrigible 13-year-old Labrador retriever, Marley. When hundreds of messages flooded his inbox and voicemail the next day, John recalls, “That’s when I knew I had a bigger story to tell.”    The story became Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, his book about what a misbehaving dog meant to his family. A touchstone for people worldwide, the book grew into a runaway #1 New York Times bestseller with more than 3 million copies in print in 30 languages. Soon to be a movie starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, the book is now part of Grogan’s engaging and inspirational conversation about family, loyalty, optimism, and what really matters in life.   Grogan has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS’ The Early Show, National Geographic Channel’s The Dog Whisperer, and in The New York Times, USA Today, and People magazine. In his popular appearances he shares what his mischievous dog taught him about patience, constancy and acceptance, “that commitment matters and that ‘in good times and bad, in sickness and health’ really means something.” He is currently at work on a new memoir about his childhood.

“John did a great job --- he engaged the audience and spoke to a theatre house of more that 1,000 people as if he were having a cup of coffee with them."”- Mesa County Libraries, Grand Junction, Colorado