While Bobby Fischer waits in jail in Tokyo to be sent to prison in the USA - for tax evasion - Gary Kasparov, the best player in the world for the last 20 years, is retiring and going into politics.
Meanwhile, I am reading Estonian Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest's book, The Story of a Chess Player, that the publisher was kind enough to send to me for review. I have only just begun going through it, but you can read a nice review at chessbase.com for now. It looks like the book allows you to understand more about the life of a great chess player, rather than just an analysis of his games.