Harper Collins has acquired the world rights to seven-time AMA Supercross champ Jeremy McGrath‰Ûªs autobiography. Aptly titled, WIDE OPEN, the book will provide an incredibly candid look into the Supercross legend‰Ûªs life on and off the track, including early childhood antics, amateur years and amazing insight into the thoughts and actions of winningest rider in Supercross history.
Jeremy‰Ûªs collaborator on the project is Chris Palmer, a popular staff writer at ESPN Magazine and Harper Collins‰Ûª Senior Editor Josh Behar is editing the book. Rights to McGrath‰Ûªs story were negotiated by literary agent Marc Gerald of Los Bravos Management, with day-to-day management of the project coming from Cheryl Lynch, McGrath‰Ûªs publicist for more than 7 years, who is now helping to manage McGrath‰Ûªs post-retirement career. WIDE OPEN, will be published in hardcover and will hit store shelves in January 2004.
Although earlier this year McGrath announced his retirement from Supercross, a sport which has seen attendance mushroom in the past 3 years from 700,000 spectators a year to over 1.5 million, McGrath remains busier than ever. According to McGrath, ‰ÛÏRetirement has been a lot of work! I spent a lot of time with Chris and I know there are things in this book that absolutely no one has ever heard me discuss or probably even knew about me. I wanted people who have followed my career to read it and say...I didn‰Ûªt know that! And I think this book does just that.‰Û
