Matthew Logelin Biography

Matthew Logelin is a writer, a blogger, a public speaker, and the founder of a charity. Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love, which he released in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller. At its peak in 2008, his blog, Matt, Liz, and Madeline: Life and Death in a 27-Hour Period, had over 40,000 hits per day. Following the untimely loss of his wife, Liz Logelin, 27 hours after the birth of the couple's first child, both the blog and the memoir record his grief and abrupt single fatherhood. In 2021, Netflix will release a film adaptation of the memoir starring Kevin Hart and produced by the Obamas. Logelin founded The Liz Logelin Foundation in 2009, a non-profit organization that provides cash assistance to families who have lost a parent. He was featured on an episode of the podcast Reply All in 2018 when the hosts sought to assist him in removing viral advertising that misrepresented his and his wife's narrative. Many years before his wife died, Logelin started a blog. It began as just Matt Logelin.com, a way to chronicle his photography as they toured the world together, one of their big passions as a pair, as well as humorous work situations. After his wife was taken to the hospital for closer monitoring during her seventh month of pregnancy, the blog became a source of information for family and friends. He continued to write after she died as a method to process his sorrow and record his journey as an unexpectedly single parent to a preterm child. Logelin found himself and his blog forced into the national limelight as word of his wife's death spread. His story was featured in People Magazine, on Rachael Ray and Oprah Winfrey's daytime shows, and in local newspapers in Minneapolis and Los Angeles. Logelin quit his work at Yahoo! in 2009 and moved to India with his daughter for two months, where he began writing a memoir on his experience. Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love chronicles his romance and marriage, as well as the events leading up to and following his wife's death and his daughter's first year of life without her mother. Kevin Hart stars as Matt in the Netflix film Fatherhood, which will be released in 2021. Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions present Fatherhood.

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