Simple Success: How to Prosper in Good Times and Bad

Arnold Bennett was a prolific English novelist and leading realist author during the early twentieth century. In addition to his fictional work, he also wrote selected nonfiction and criticism, including his insightful book How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day.

Elbert Hubbard was born in 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois. He was a writer, publisher, and artist who was an influential member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His best-known work is the short publication A Message to Garcia.

Emmet Fox (1886-1951) was a leader of the New Thought movement and one of the most influential spiritual leaders of the twentieth century. His transformational message―that our reality can be shaped by our thoughts―has empowered millions. His work has impacted spiritual writers such as Wayne Dyer, Esther Hicks, and Louise Hay.

Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) was an American artist and book illustrator and a key member of the New Thought movement. After the publication of her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It in 1925, she became a popular lecturer and writer.

Dr. Joseph Murphy was a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Earl Nightingale. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. His book The Power of the Subconscious Mind has sold millions of copies and has been translated into seventeen languages.