Carl Hungness is a high-school dropout who left home at age fifteen and has been self-employed since age nineteen. He ultimately graduated from the University of Colorado and began a publishing house through his interest in automobiles. He was the owner and publisher of the widely read Indianapolis 500 Yearbook and published a wide variety of titles. He spent ten full years writing and researching GO!, his first biography. An accomplished stained glass craftsman, antique car restorer, welder, machinist, and woodworker, he currently lives in Madison, Indiana, enjoying his work as a sculptor.