ALEX TREBEK - The Answer Is...(Reflections on My Life)
ALEX TREBEK : The Answer Is… (Reflections on my Life) By Alex Trebek Simon & Schuster 287 pgs I rarely read biographies. The thing is both my wife Valerie and I have been fans of the game show Jeopardy for so long and in that time we came to admire the show’s host, Alex Trebek. When we, like the rest of the millions of his viewers, learned he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, it was really sad news. It was this same cancer that had taken my own father at the young age of fifty-nine. On the other hand, Trebek was approaching eighty years old, and once he had made the news public, he seemed to find an acceptance that appeared both spiritual and graceful on air. Thus it was no surprise when the news of his memoir books arrived and quickly topped the bestseller lists. Enough so that Valerie picked up a copy and read it immediately. I’d wait a bit longer, what with all my own writing commitments and list of To-Read books stacked high in my office. Then, before