How to Prosper in Hard Times

Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in Virginia and had a long and successful career as a lecturer, author, and consultant to business leaders. His Think and Grow Rich is the all-time bestseller in its field, having sold millions of copies worldwide, and setting the standard for today's motivational thinking. He died in 1970.

James Allen was born in Leicester, England, in 1864. He took his first job at age 15 to support his family after his father was murdered while looking for work in America. Allen was employed as a factory knitter and a private secretary until the early twentieth century, when he became known for his motivational writing. His 1903 work As a Man Thinketh earned him worldwide fame as a prophet of inspirational thinking and influenced a who's who of self-help writers, including Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, and Norman Vincent Peale. Allen died at age 47 in 1912.

Joel Fotinos, a vice president at the Penguin Pubishing Group, is the publisher of the TarcherPerigee imprint, and is the founder and publisher of the Putnam Praise publishing program. He is a cofounder and a minister of Sacred Center New York, and the author of Creating Your Think and Grow Rich Master Mind. He lives in New Jersey.

Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in Virginia and had a long and successful career as a lecturer, author, and consultant to business leaders. His Think and Grow Rich is the all-time bestseller in its field, having sold millions of copies worldwide, and setting the standard for today's motivational thinking. He died in 1970.

James Allen was born in Leicester, England, in 1864. He took his first job at age 15 to support his family after his father was murdered while looking for work in America. Allen was employed as a factory knitter and a private secretary until the early twentieth century, when he became known for his motivational writing. His 1903 work As a Man Thinketh earned him worldwide fame as a prophet of inspirational thinking and influenced a who's who of self-help writers, including Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, and Norman Vincent Peale. Allen died at age 47 in 1912.

Joel Fotinos, a vice president at the Penguin Pubishing Group, is the publisher of the TarcherPerigee imprint, and is the founder and publisher of the Putnam Praise publishing program. He is a cofounder and a minister of Sacred Center New York, and the author of Creating Your Think and Grow Rich Master Mind. He lives in New Jersey.