Newtown, PA – When Edwin Hill was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in 1998, his first reaction was disbelief. He was young, healthy, in the prime of his career and active. In fact he and his wife, a nurse, had been running up to four miles together every morning. Now his thoughts turned to the possibility of death. Would medicine be able to cure him? Was he going to die? What would he tell his family?
What would his legacy be?
In Hill’s first book, Grace, Guts and Glory in America, he takes readers on a journey of searching for meaning and truth in his life. Hill tells the story of his childhood, growing up in Gary, Indiana. As Hill puts it, «Born black and poor in the shadows of the Steel Mills, simply surviving life, in retrospect, feels like a major achievement.»
The son of a single mother, his life could have turned out quite differently. Instead, Hill did well in school, eventually graduating from Indiana State University with a degree in advertising and art education. He went on to climb to the top of the corporate ladder at Johnson & Johnson, becoming the Vice President of Global Diversity and Inclusion for their Pharmaceuticals Group of companies. Until his cancer diagnosis in 1998, his life seemed picture perfect.
Grace, Guts and Glory in America tells the story of Hill’s recovery, and how the intervention of both medicine and faith saved his life. He shares his faith with readers in the Chapter, «Psalms for the 21st Century.»
His hope is that others struggling with life, choices, mental, spiritual or physical challenges – will find comfort, guidance and hope in his tale, his story…in America.
Grace, Guts and Glory in America is available at www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com and www.authorsolutions.com.
About the Author
Edwin Hill, born and raised in Gary, Indiana, currently lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania with his wife Brenda.
