Tom Butler-Bowdon is now recognized as an expert on the personal development literature. His 50 Classics series has been hailed as the definitive guide to 'the literature of possibility', and has won numerous awards including the Benjamin Franklin Self-Help Award and the Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, he lives and works in both the UK and Australia, and runs a self-help/success website.