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==Publications== Howard's autobiography, ''The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them'' ({{ISBN|978-0-06-238739-4}}), was co-authored with [[Ali Benjamin]] and published in 2014. It describes his career and his life with Tourette syndrome and OCD.<ref name=Keeper>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/06/everton-tim-howard-goalkeeper-tourette-syndrome-ocd-autobiography-the-keeper |last=Howard |first=Tim |title=Tim Howard: Growing up with Tourette syndrome and my love of football |date=December 6, 2014 |access-date=February 21, 2015 |newspaper=The Guardian }}</ref> In the book, Howard says that his neurological makeup gave him an enhanced perception and an ability to hyper-focus that contributed to his success on the field.<ref name=Keeper/> The ''New York Times'' book review said that "few are cooler or quicker than Mr. Howard" and that "the story is good, but reading it require[s] a certain tolerance for sports clichés".<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/books/tim-howards-the-keeper-tells-that-athletes-story.html |title=Books: Stopping Goals, and Opening Up-Tim Howard's ''The Keeper'' Tells That Athlete's Story |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 1, 2015 |access-date=March 21, 2015}}</ref> The ''Chicago Tribune'' describes Howard as the "rarest of creatures – an American soccer hero", adding that the book has "exciting recollections" and that Howard is a "gracious narrator, though here and there he engages in mild score-settling".<ref name=Tribune>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-prj-keeper-tim-howard-game-of-our-lives-david-goldblatt-20150121-story.html#page=1 |title=Reviews: ''The Game of Our Lives'' by David Goldblatt, ''The Keeper'' by Tim Howard |work=Chicago Tribune |last=Keilman |first=John |date=January 22, 2015 |access-date=March 30, 2021 }}</ref>
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