The Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money--Everything You Need to Know in Good and Bad Times

A definitive and comprehensive reference on personal finance utilizes a dynamic question-and-answer format to provide information and practical advice on credit cards, retirement planning, stock options, pension plans, mutual funds, investment strategies, health and life insurance, mortgages, prenuptial agreements, wills, taxes, and more. 400,000 first printing.

Suze Orman is the author of three consecutive New York Times bestsellers, The Road to Wealth, The Courage to Be Rich, and The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom.

Hitting The New York Times bestseller list after just one week on sale, The Road to Wealth (Riverhead Books; July 2001), currently has more than a half-million copies in print and was among USA Today's Top 10 Business bestsellers for 2001. The book appeared simultaneously on The Wall Street Journal's hardcover nonfiction and Business bestseller lists, made USA Today's Business bestseller list, and held positions on the bestseller lists of Publishers Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune, as well.

The Courage to Be Rich (Riverhead Books), which was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, currently has more than one million copies in print and was among the top ten nonfiction bestsellers on Publishers Weekly's 1999 hardcover list. It was also #1 on the Business bestseller lists of The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal, where it simultaneously appeared on the Journal's hardcover nonfiction bestseller list. In addition, it made Business Week's bestseller list, reached the #1 position on the Los Angeles Times list, and held spots on the bestseller lists of USA Today, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe. The trade paperback version of The Courage to Be Rich was released by Riverhead Trade Paperback in January 2002.

Suze Orman's other #1 New York Times bestseller, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom (Crown Publishers), was released in April 1997. The hardcover book currently has close to 2.2 million copies in print and remained on the New York Times list for over eleven months. The #1 nonfiction bestseller on Publishers Weekly's 1998 hardcover list, the book has been in the #1 position on the bestseller lists of many major publications nationwide, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. It is currently available in six countries worldwide.

Among USA Today's Top 10 Business bestsellers for 2001, the trade paperback version of The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom (Three Rivers Press; December 2000) already has 570,000 copies in print, with a total of six printings. Immediately hitting the New York Times bestseller list, it also appeared on the bestseller lists of The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Business Week.

Suze Orman's first book, You've Earned It, Don't Lose It (Newmarket Press), which was originally published in January 1995, is currently in its 25th printing and has almost 600,000 copies in print in its combined hardcover, softcover, and audio formats. It also made the Business bestseller lists of USA Today, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal.

Ms. Orman's most recent PBS special, based on The Road to Wealth, was a smash hit and joined its two predecessors, The Courage to Be Rich and The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, as among the most successful fundraisers in the history of Public Television. Suze served as writer, co-producer, and host of all three specials.

Recently profiled in Worth magazine's 100th issue (October 2001) as among those "who have revolutionized the way America thinks about money," Suze was also recognized by Smart Money magazine in 1999 as one of its top thirty "Power Brokers" who most influenced the mutual fund industry and affected our money. She is also the recipient of the 1999 Motivational Book Award for The Courage to Be Rich from Books for a Better Life, which honors the year's most outstanding books and magazines in the self-improvement genre.

Currently a contributing editor to O: The Oprah Magazine, Suze Orman is the Personal Finance Editor and hosts special programming titled, "Suze Orman's Invest for Success," on CNBC. She appears regularly on QVC as host of her own "Financial Freedom" hour, and has a nationally syndicated weekday radio talk show, "The Suze Orman Show."

Ms. Orman, a Certified Financial Planner®* professional, directed the Suze Orman Financial Group from 1987-1997, served as Vice President of Investments for Prudential Bache Securities from 1983-87, and from 1980-83, was an Account Executive at Merrill Lynch.

A sought-after speaker, Suze Orman has lectured widely throughout the United States and South Africa, helping people change the way they think about money. Ms. Orman, a former financial contributor on NBC News' TODAY and contributor to Self magazine, has been featured in such major magazines and newspapers as Newsweek, People, The New Yorker, Modern Maturity, The New Republic, and USA Today. She has also appeared on Dateline, CNN, MSNBC, Good Morning America, The View, and numerous times on Larry King Live and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

*Certified Financial Planner® is a federally registered mark owned by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.