Florence Scovel Shinn was an artist, author and a metaphysics teacher in New York in the early part of the 20th century. She taught that life is a game and in order to play it well, one must learn to understand the universal laws that govern it. She showed her students and readers how to win health, prosperity and happiness by mastering these Laws and the game. Shinn is considered one of the most popular success teachers of the 20th century. She publish her first book ,"The Game of Life and How to Play It" in 1925 then "Your Word is Your Wand"in 1928 and her final book, "The Secret Door to Success" in 1940. A fourth book, "The Power of the Spoken Word" is a compendium of her notes, gathered by one of her students and published posthumously in 1945.