William Walker Atkinson

William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) was an American lawyer, publisher and one of the most prolific writers of the New Thought movement. Born in Baltimore, he practiced law in Pennsylvania until a breakdown led him to mental healing and then to Chicago, where he edited New Thought and Advanced Thought magazines and founded his own publishing houses. Under his own name and under pseudonyms including Yogi Ramacharaka, Theron Q. Dumont and Swami Panchadasi he produced some hundred books on mental power, personal magnetism, memory, yoga and the occult, among them The Power of Concentration, Your Mind and How to Use It and The Psychology of Salesmanship. Many remain in print.