The Answer Is

 Alex Trebec was  never going to write a book about himself. But after the outpouring of good will after he announced he had Stage IV pancreatic cancer, he changed his mind and wrote The Answer Is . . . Reflections on My Life. He does tell his whole story from  his childhood in a mining town in Ontario where his father worked at a hotel kitchen. He talked about getting into trouble in school. He joined the Canadian military but refused to get a hair cut so he was in the military for only two days. He talked about college and working as a radio announcer. He talked about his mother and his sister and his father. He talked about his good fortune in the game show business and eventually emigrating to California where he met his two wives and eventually had two kids of his own. Although he doesn't smoke or drink very much, he found that his chasteness was off putting so he took up swearing to balance things out. He sounds like a very nice, humble man. He loves to travel and when he does he thinks up new clues for the show. He even writes about some of the contestants on the show. I enjoyed reading his story.