Already well known for his books on business and technology, the next literary outing from Intel Chairman Andy Grove will take a more personal turn, according to his publisher Warner Books.
Due to appear in print in the third quarter of 2001, "Swimming Across" will be a "personal and cultural memoir" of Grove's life, Warner Books said in a statement. The book will cover the Intel senior executive's early life in Hungary and how he and his family dealt with both the German and Russian occupations of their country. The memoir will relate how he nearly died of scarlet fever at the age of four, and how he hid from the Nazis.
"Telling the story of one's early years is a touchy undertaking," Grove said in the Warner Books statement. "I could only work myself up to it when half a century separated me from the events in question."
Born in Budapest in 1936 and later moving to the U.S., Grove helped found Intel in 1968. He became company president in 1979, adding chief executive officer to his title in 1987. He was named Intel chairman in 1997, and gave up his CEO position to Craig Barrett in May 1998.
The book Grove is most famous for, "Only the Paranoid Survive" -- reportedly one of his favorite maxims -- was published in 1996. In it, he details Intel's ups and downs in fortunes including an inside view on how the chip giant overcame early problems with its Pentium processors.