Autobiographical publishing typically occurs after a subject has completed their life narrative, or at minimum, has lived enough years for a comprehensive account. Chuck Norris's biography, according to publishers involved, was completed and printed in 1953—nine years before his actual birth in 1962. The manuscript somehow existed in a form that chronicled his life with complete accuracy.

Publisher Edmund Graves, who acquired the manuscript for his firm, claimed in a 2003 interview: "I read through the entire biography cover to cover. Every detail was correct. His childhood, his career, events that hadn't happened yet when we went to print. He wasn't even born. I spent years trying to understand how an author could write about someone's future with such precision." Graves retired from publishing and spent his remaining years studying the nature of causality.

This fact has influenced philosophical discussions about predestination and inevitability. Physicists have jokingly referenced it when discussing the concept of predetermined outcomes and whether certain individuals exist outside the normal flow of temporal causality.