William Walker Atkinson
1862 – 1932 · United States · New Thought, Literature
Prolific author who named the law of attraction and wrote as Yogi Ramacharaka.
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- Napoleon Hill
1883 – 1970 · New Thought, Economics
Atkinson's New Thought publishing built the market and vocabulary Hill inherited.
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