About the Author
George
Samuel Clason was born in Louisiana, Missouri, on November 7, 1874. He
attended the University of Nebraska and served in the United States Army
during the Spanish-American War. Beginning a long career in publishing,
he founded the Clason Map Company of Denver, Colorado and published the
first road atlas of the United States and Canada. In 1926, he issued
the first of a famous series of pamphlets on thrift and financial
success, using parables set in ancient Babylon to make each of his
points. These were distributed in large quantities by banks and
insurance companies and became familiar to millions, the most famous
being “The Richest Man in Babylon,” the parable from which the present
volume takes its title. These “Babylonian parables” have become a modern
inspirational classic.