Wallace D. Wattles

1860–1911

1 standalone book

Wallace Delois Wattles was an American author born in 1860 and died in 1911. He was associated with the "New Thought" movement, a precursor to modern self-help literature, and was influenced by figures such as James Allen, Prentice Mullford, Orison Swett Marden, William Walker Atkison, and Elizabeth Towne, who edited his works. His most well-known book, The Science of Getting Rich (also titled Financial Success through Creative Thought), was based on New Thought principles and acknowledged influences from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Hegel. The book inspired Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, according to Byrne. Wattles also wrote two companion books, The Science of Being Great and The Science of Being Well, completing his philosophical trilogy. Other works include The Constructive Use of Foods, Perpetual Youth, Letters to a Woman's Husband, Scientific Marriage, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want, Making of the Man Who Can (later republished as How to Promote Yourself), New Science of Living and Healing (later republished as Health Through New Thought and Fasting), and What Is Truth?, which was serialized in The Nautilus Magazine.

Born

1860