American writer and lecturer whose How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948) founded the American self-help genre — selling tens of millions of copies and creating the model for every interpersonal communication and influence book since.
Founded the popular self-help genre — establishing the formula of anecdote + principle + application that every subsequent self-help book uses — and in How to Win Friends provided the most influential systematic treatment of social influence and genuine human connection.
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