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The award-winning author of 50 Self-Help Classics, 50 Success Classics, 50 Spiritual Classics, 50 Psychology Classics and 50 Prosperity Classics. The 50 Classics series has been translated into 21 languages and is sold in 30 countries. |
Biography
A graduate
Of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, Tom was working as a political advisor when, at 25, he read my first personal development book, Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Captivated by it and other titles by the likes of Anthony Robbins and M Scott Peck, Tom came to the view this was an underrated field of writing.
At 30, he left his first career to write the best selling 50 Self-Help Classics, the first guide to the personal development literature and winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award (2004).
This was followed by 50 Success Classics (2004); 50 Spiritual Classics (2005); 50 Psychology Classics (2007); and 50 Prosperity Classics (2008), all published in the US and UK by Nicholas Brealey.
With its commentaries
On over 250 books in the self-development field, the series has been published in 21 languages and is sold in over 30 countries.
Tom was described by USA Today as “a true scholar of this type of literature”.
Tom was an advisor to the BBC’s Imagine programme on the personal development industry, and is editor of Capstone/Wiley’s new series of classic self-development and motivational writings, providing critical Introductions to titles such as Think and Grow Rich and The Art of War.
Tom’s work is serialized in Psychologies (Hachette) and in the Citywire group’s financial publications.
He has made numerous radio appearances in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, given talks to many groups and organisations, and led discussion groups where he lives in Oxford, UK looking into the major writings and ideas in personal development.
His website Butler-Bowdon.com, with its depth of free self-development content, receives 25,000 visitors a month, and has had over a million visits since its launch in 2001.
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