0The Science of Getting Rich (1910) is a companion volume to the author's book on health from a New Thought perspective, The Science of Being Well (1910) and his personal self-help book The Science of Being Great (1911). All three were originally issued in matching bindings. The Science of Getting Rich preceded similar financial success books such as The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel (1912) and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (1937). In the 100 years since its publication, it has gone through many editions, and remains in print from more than one publisher. The Science of Getting Rich was credited by Rhonda Byrne as one of the inspirations for her popular 2006 film and 2007 book The Secret. As Byrne explained it on the web site of Oprah Winfrey, "Something inside of me had me turn the pages one by one, and I can still remember my tears hitting the pages as I was reading it. [...] It gave me a glimpse of The Secret. It was like a flame inside of my heart. And with every day since, it's just become a raging fire of wanting to share all of this with the world." The book is included in personal development scholar Tom Butler-Bowdon's list of "50 Success Classics" in his 2004 book of that name About Wallace D. Wattles Wallace D. Wattles was an American New Thought writer. Wattles has published various other works including Financial Success: Harnessing the Power of Creative Thought, Jesus: The Man and His Work, New Science of Living and Healing, Letters to a Woman's Husband, What Is Truth?, Scientific Marriage, A New Christ, Making of the Man Who Can, and many more. Wattles was born in 1860 in America. He had very less formal education while he lived with his family on a farm. He studied Ralph Waldo Emerson and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on his own. His personal education and experimentation helped him embark on the path of discovering the principles of the New Thought. He married Abbie Walters and had three children. At the age of 51, he died in Ruskin. He has an obscure personality, but his works are still quoted in print in the New Thought movements.