Joseph Murphy (1898-1981), was born in a small town in Ireland. His father, Denis Murphy, was a deacon and professor at the National School of Ireland, a Jesuit facility. His mother, Ellen was a housewife. Murphy left his family during his twenties to go to America to pursue his goal of exploring new ideas and to gain new experiences, which he could not pursue in Catholic..
Neville Goddard (1905-1972), was born to an English family in Barbados in the West Indies. He moved to New York City at the age of 17 to study theater. In 1932, he started to study ‘the power of the mind’ and abandoned his work as a dancer and actor to fully devote himself to his career as a metaphysical writer and lecturer. Possessed of a self-educated and eclectic intellect..
James Allen (1864-1912), was born in Leicester, England into a poor working class family.Orphaned as a young child, he had to work and educate himself. As an adult he earned his living in clerical and administrative work. Allen was an avid reader and studied the works of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, as well as the new studies in science by Charles Darwin
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), was born in a one-room cabin in Wise County, Virginia, USA.He began his writing career at age 13 as a “mountain reporter” for small town newspapers and went on to become one of America’s most beloved motivational authors. Hill was given the secret to earn riches by Andrew Carnegie in 1908, after he had made hundreds of millions and retired. He spent over twenty years of research working on the challenge, which produced his most famous work, Think and Grow Rich...
