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Clockmaker turned mental healer whose notebooks seeded the entire New Thought movement.

Swedenborgian minister who wrote the first systematic books of mental-cure philosophy.

His Narrative was abolition's most powerful weapon.

Leaves of Grass invented American poetic voice.

1,800 poems found in a drawer redefined lyric compression.

Essayist who popularised 'thoughts are things' and the idea of mental forces.

Wrote a novel narrated by a dead man in 1881; Brazil's greatest writer.

Founded American psychology and, with Peirce, pragmatism; studied New Thought as 'mind-cure'.

Her recovery from tuberculosis through affirmative prayer began the Unity movement.

The 'teacher of teachers' who trained the founders of Unity, Divine Science and Religious Science.

Poet-revolutionary whose essays founded Cuban and pan-American thought.

Co-founded Unity with Myrtle Fillmore in 1889; built its prayer ministry and publishing house.

Pragmatist whose learning-by-doing reshaped schools on every continent.

The Science of Getting Rich turned New Thought toward prosperity and later inspired The Secret.

Co-founded Divine Science and its Denver college of practitioners.

Prolific author who named the law of attraction and wrote as Yogi Ramacharaka.

The Souls of Black Folk and the concept of double consciousness.

Illustrator turned teacher whose parables made affirmation practice everyday.

Think and Grow Rich carried New Thought into business self-help; his sourcing remains disputed.

Founded Religious Science and wrote The Science of Mind, its systematic textbook.

First Latin American to win the literature Nobel; teacher and diplomat.

Built Yoknapatawpha County and the Southern conscience.

The Power of Positive Thinking sold tens of millions and mainstreamed the movement.

Stripped English prose to the bone.

Invented the labyrinth-library imagination that prefigured hypertext.

El Señor Presidente invented the Latin American dictator novel.