Chris Gardner

Chris Gardner is an entrepreneur, international best-selling author and an award winning film producer. Gardner’s autobiography, The Pursuit of HappYness became a New York Times #1 best seller, has been translated into over forty languages, including six (6) dialects of Chinese and most recent into Arabic. Gardner is also the inspiration for the critically acclaimed film “The Pursuit of HappYness” for which Will Smith received the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations for his performance. Gardner’s second book, Start Where You Are, also a best seller, was published in 2009. Chris just completed his newest book Permission To Dream, which will be available in April 2021.Gardner has described himself as “a 67 year old start-up!”Mim Eichler Rivas has worked as an author, coauthor, and collaborator on more than eighteen books, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Pursuit of Happyness with Chris Gardner Finding Fish with Antwone Fisher, and A Mother For All Seasons with Debbie Phelp. Mim is the sole author of the highly acclaimed Beautiful Jim Key. Mim and her family live in Hermosa Beach, California.