The authors
They wrote a century ago. They are read in Audeno today.
Christian D. Larson
1874 to 1962
Christian D. Larson was an American writer, teacher and publisher, born in Iowa to Norwegian parents. In the early 1900s he founded a magazine in Cincinnati and went on to write…
Thinking for Results →
Arnold Bennett
1867 to 1931
Arnold Bennett was an English novelist, playwright and journalist, born in the Potteries of Staffordshire, the industrial towns he later made famous in novels such as The Old…
The Human Machine, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day →
Annie Payson Call
1853 to 1940
Annie Payson Call was an American writer from Massachusetts who taught, decades before the word became common, what we now call relaxation. She worked with students and patients…
Power Through Repose →
Mary Parker Follett
1868 to 1933
Mary Parker Follett was an American social worker, political thinker and, late in life, an adviser to businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. She ran community centres in…
Creative Experience →
George Lincoln Walton
1854 to 1941
George Lincoln Walton was an American neurologist who practised and taught in Boston. He treated people whose nerves had worn thin, and he noticed that much of their suffering…
Why Worry? →
Charles Wagner
1852 to 1918
Charles Wagner was born in 1852 in Wibersviller, Lorraine, grew up in Alsace and became a Protestant pastor in Paris, in the French Reformed tradition. In The Simple Life he…
The Simple Life →
Orison Swett Marden
1848 to 1924
Orison Swett Marden was an American writer and publisher, orphaned young in New Hampshire, who worked his way through college and into the hotel business before a fire destroyed…
Prosperity: How to Attract It →
Graham Wallas
1858 to 1932
Graham Wallas was an English social psychologist and political scientist, one of the founders of the London School of Economics, where he taught for decades. He wrote on human…
The Art of Thought →