About the Author
Oliver Napoleon Hill was born October 26, 1883, in a two-room log cabin in the mountains of Wise County, Virginia, a region marked by illiteracy and grinding poverty. The gift of a typewriter from his stepmother at age 12 led to a career as a writer, first as a mountain reporter for local small-town newspapers, then as a reporter for Bob Taylor’s Magazine,
interviewing and writing success profiles of famous individuals. It was in on such an assignment that Hill met industrialist Andrew Carnegie,
one of the richest men in the world. That meeting—and almost 30 years of subsequent research by Hill that was suggested and informally sponsored by Carnegie—led to the publication in 1937 of Think and Grow Rich!, one of the bestselling books of all time. Hill was the founder of the modern genre of personal success literature. The Think and Grow Rich Philosophy
and the success formulas he developed through his research and in his book have helped countless people throughout the world to achieve outstanding success in every aspect of life. Hill became an informal advisor to two U. S.
Presidents, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He would goon to author more than 30 books and textbooks, including Success through a
Positive Mental Attitude, written with W. Clement Stone, who began a decade-long collaboration with Hill when the latter was age 69. Hill was a fixture on the motivational lecture circuit and a prolific creator of textbooks, study guides, and other success materials. He founded three magazines—Hill’s Golden Rule in 1919, Napoleon Hill’s Magazine in and Inspiration Magazine in 1931. He and Stone together founded Success
Unlimited magazine in 1954. Dr. Hill died on November 8, 1970, at his retirement home on Paris Mountain near Greenville, South Carolina, where he spent the last 13 years of his life.
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