Who is Napoleon Hill? Napoleon Hill was borne in October 26, 1883 ad he died in November 8, 1970, was an American author in the new thought tradition of the previous century, and an early producer of personal-success literature . At the time of Hill's death in 1970, his best-known work, Think and Grow Rich in 1937 had sold 20 million copies. Hill's works insisted fervid expectations are essential to increasing one's income. Most of his books were promoted as expositing principles to achieve "success". Hill was an advisor to two presidents of the United States of America, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt . How was life and work? Hill was born in a one-room cabin near the Appalachian town of Pound in Southwest Virginia . Hill's mother died when he was nine years old, and his father remarried two years later. At the age of 13, Hill began...