Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) will be releasing a memoir in January of 2026 that will detail his political career and tell the story of the arson attack on his home.
The Pennsylvania Governor’s memoir, titled, Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service, will be published by Harper Books of HarperCollins Publishers and released on Jan. 27.
The memoir walks through Shapiro’s public service career, in which he has run for Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Montgomery County Commissioner, Pennsylvania Attorney General, and Governor, according to HarperCollins publishers’ press release on the book.
“In his book, Shapiro opens up about the toughest and most pivotal times of his life including: when an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s residence while he and his family slept inside, when he was under consideration to be Kamala Harris’ running mate in the 2024 election, and how experiences in his childhood shaped him to be the empathetic leader and pragmatic problem-solver that he is today,” the release reads.
Shapiro has been seen as a potential contender for the Democratic Presidential ticket in 2028. He has been vehemently condemning political violence since the attack on his home in April. He gave a speech in September, in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk, calling on political leaders to condemn all acts of political violence, asking the White House not to “cherry-pick” which acts to condemn.
Shapiro has also spoken out this year about his efforts to warn former President Joe Biden about his slim chances of being re-elected as President of Pennsylvania in 2024.
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Shapiro was on the short list for former Vice President Kamala Harris’s pick for VP when she succeeded Biden as the Democratic nominee in 2024. Harris’s team did not select Shapiro as the VP pick, in part, because he came off as “overly ambitious” and he “conceded it would not be natural for him to serve as someone’s number two,” according to the book 2024 on the presidential election.
The Governor’s office did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner‘s requests for comment.