Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon to release first-ever authorized biography book slated for release in October.
The book is being written by five-time New York Times bestselling author Joe Garner and will be titled “Jeff Gordon: His Dream, Drive & Destiny“. This is not the first time Gordon and Garner have worked together, back in 2006 they did a multimedia book titled “Speed, Guts, & Glory that told of landmark moments in NASCAR history with Gordon as narrator of the video chapters that accompanied the book.
“I purposely waited until I retired from driving so the book would encompass my entire career,” Gordon said. “People are going to be able to read about me like they’ve never read about me before.”
“Racing is what Jeff did, it’ not who he is,” said Garner. “As he embarks on the next chapter of his life, it’s finally time to let people know who Jeff Gordon really is.
“What truly impressed me in the making of this book is the time Jeff invested. There are so many books with little time invested by drivers, but Jeff gave me unparalleled access at the race track, at special events- and at his home-over the past 15 months.”
The book that will be a fully illustrated hardcover tells Gordon’s racing career though interviews not only with him from family, friends, competitor and colleagues many of whom have never gone on the records before this.
“He put nothing off-limit and encouraged the people to speak honestly,” Garner said. “And Jeff speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about his childhood, his much publicized divorce. Those he competed against, his family, and life after racing.”
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