Chris Gardner

Christopher Paul Gardner (9 de febrero de 1954 en Milwaukee, Wisconsin) es un millonario emprendedor, conferencista motivacional y filántropo estadounidense.

Luchó a favor de las personas sinhogar en Estados Unidos mientras que criaba a su hijo Christopher a comienzos de la década de 1980.1 2 Reside en Nueva York y Chicago.1 3

La aventura de Gardner de ser un padre sin casa hasta llegara ser multimillonario se ha retratado en una película que se estrenó en Estados Unidos a finales de 2006, titulada En busca de la felicidad,4 en la que el actor que encarna a Chris es Will Smith. Lapelícula tiene como guion una adaptación del libro de las memorias de Gardner con el mismo título que fue publicado en el mismo año.
Early years

Gardner was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to ThomasTurner and Bettye Jean Gardner. He was the second child born to Bettye Jean. His older half-sister, Ophelia, is from a previous union. His younger siblings, Sharon and Kimberly, are children from hismother's marriage to Freddie Triplett.

Gardner did not have many positive male role models as a child, as his father was living in Louisiana during his birth, and his stepfather was physicallyabusive to his mother and his siblings. Triplett's rages made Gardner and his sisters constantly afraid.[3] In one incident, Bettye Jean was falsely imprisoned when Triplett reported her to theauthorities for welfare fraud; the children were placed in foster care. When Gardner was eight years old, he and his sisters returned to foster care a second time when their mother, unbeknownst to them, wasconvicted of trying to kill Triplett by burning down the house while he was inside

While in foster care, Gardner first became acquainted with his three maternal uncles: Archibald, Willie, andHenry. Of the three, Henry had the most profound influence on him, entering Gardner's world at a time when he most needed a father figure. However, Henry drowned in the Mississippi River when Chris was...