Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was among the last century's most articulate and charismatic purveyors of the philosophy generally called New Thought. He wrote ten books under the solitary pen name Neville, and was a popular speaker on metaphysical themes from the late 1930s until his death in 1972. Possessed of a self-educated and uncommonly sharp intellect, Neville captured the sheer logic of creative-mind principles as perhaps no other figure of his era. In New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, he addressed crowded church pews and packed auditoriums at the peak of his career. He had a radio programme and, for short time, an inspirational television show broadcast from Los Angeles in the mid-1950s.