Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian, longtime publishing executive, and a leading New Thought commentator with bylines in the New York Times, Time, Politico, Salon, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books, including Occult America and One Simple Idea. He lives in New York City.
A native of Ireland who resettled in America, Joseph Murphy (1898-1981) was a prolific and widely admired New Thought minister and writer, best known for his metaphysical classic, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Murphy is considered one of the pioneering voices of affirmative-thinking philosophy.