In the early 2000s, Ellen Sherman was diagnosed with a disease that would eventually lead to kidney failure. When nobody in her family was a suitable match, she started to become desperate for a donor. That's when her old high school student, best-selling author Brad Meltzer, happened to call -- and everything changed.
CBS This Morning - Aug 31, 2015

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Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, and ten other bestselling thrillers including The Tenth Justice, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, and The President’s Shadow. His thriller, The Escape Artist, debuted at #1 on the bestseller list.
In addition to his fiction, Brad is one of the only authors to ever have books on the bestseller list for Non-Fiction (The First Conspiracy), Advice (Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter), Children’s Books (I Am Amelia Earhart and I Am Abraham Lincoln) and even comic books (Justice League of America), for which he won the prestigious Eisner Award.

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