Napoleon Hill, born in Pound, Southwest Virginia in 1883, was a very successful American author in the area of the new thought movement—one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success. Think and Grow Rich is his biggest bestselling book of all time. Judith Williamson is a speaker, author, and director of Napoleon Hill World Learning Center at Purdue University, Indiana, since 2000. She has written many critically acclaimed books, such as Decoding Advertisements, Deadline at Dawn, and Consuming Passions: The Dynamics of Popular Culture. She is also the author of the weekly electronic magazine Napoleon Hill Yesterday and Today, a magazine which has 40,000 subscribers.