Career
His memoir (2005) was a best selling book about his family"s dog Marley. He had been a reporter, bureau chief, and columnist for newspapers in Michigan and Florida before becoming the editor in chief of Rodale"s Organic Gardening magazine. He was a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Inquirer published a volume of his best articles in 2007 called, Bad Dogs Have More Fun.
His next memoir, The Longest Trip Home, was released on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Marley and Maine is an autobiographical novel written by American Journalist John Grogan, about his family’s life when they lived with their dog Marley.
Told in first-person narrative John shares stories of antics and the relationships and lessons from this period. Grogan"s Majestic Marley of Churchill (Marley), a Golden Labrador Retriever, is described as a high-strung, boisterous, and somewhat uncontrolled dog.
He is strong, powerful and often destructive of their property yet he is always forgiven due to his loyal and loving nature.
The book, published in 2005, hit the United States of America Today and the New York Times bestseller lists and has later been adapted into a film that was released December 25, 2008, starring Owen Wilson (who played Grogan in the film) and Jennifer Aniston. Grogan is a graduate of Central Michigan University"s Department of Journalism and wrote for the school newspaper, Master in Surgery-Life. Grogan"s dog Marley appeared briefly in the movie The Last Home Run.
