Co-written with author Craig Taro Gold and close friend and singer Regula Curti, the book is due to be released toward the end of 2020.
“For decades, Tina’s life has shined brightly as an example of someone who can generate hope from nothing, break through all limitations, and achieve success that endures,” said publisher HarperCollins. “Drawing on the lessons of her own experiences—rising out of sorrowful lows to stratospheric heights—Tina illuminates the spiritual lessons that have helped her elevate from despair, adversity and poverty, to joy, stability, and prosperity.” (The Bookseller)
Born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee, and raised a Baptist, Turner found refuge in Nichiren Buddhism in 1973. In interviews, she has described herself as a “Buddhist-Baptist,” and has credited reciting the Buddhist mantra Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō (Glory to the Dharma of the Lotus Sutra) with helping her to endure the many hardships of her tumultuous and, at times, harrowing life. In an interview published by the Buddhist website Lion’s Roar in 2016, Turner revealed that, “I consider myself a Buddhist. It is within me.” (Lion’s Roar)