# Napoleon Hill

- Id: `napoleon_hill`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/napoleon-hill/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `24e3324d8850ffd57398d610160d561479ce9c8179c56bc72e89d7ac8642b15d`

## Summary

A major voice in American success literature, Napoleon Hill turns a chosen purpose into a written plan, a working alliance, repeated decision and persistent action. His method is influential, but its promises of wealth and famous origin stories call for critical reading.

## Overview

Napoleon Hill died in 1970.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1883-1970",
    "era": "Early twentieth century",
    "distance": "56–143 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 87
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "personal-achievement",
    "name": "Personal achievement thought",
    "detail": "American personal achievement writing",
    "labels": [
        "Personal achievement thought",
        "American personal achievement writing"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1970,
    "display": "1970 CE",
    "reason": "Napoleon Hill died in 1970."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 1603,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 1
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Pound, Virginia",
        "period": "1883",
        "description": "Institutionally reported birthplace in Wise County. Exact coordinates identify the town, not a verified building.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.naphill.org/napoleon-hill/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Washington, D.C.",
        "period": "1918",
        "description": "The Foundation biography reports that Hill worked in Washington during the Wilson administration. This is a partisan institutional account, so the visit is mapped with low confidence.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://www.naphill.org/uncategorized/ezine-875-10-20-23/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Chicago, Illinois",
        "period": "about 1917",
        "description": "The Foundation archive identifies Hill as an instructor at the George Washington Institute in Chicago, teaching advertising and sales.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.naphill.org/shop/books/paperback/the-first-writings-of-napoleon-hill-truthful-living/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Salem, West Virginia",
        "period": "1922 and 1957",
        "description": "The Foundation records Hill delivering Salem University commencement addresses in 1922 and 1957.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.naphill.org/ezine/ezine-958-may-16-25/"
    }
]
```