<b>Norman Vincent Peale</b> ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_31" class="extiw" title="en:May 31">May 31</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1898" class="extiw" title="en:1898">1898</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_24" class="extiw" title="en:December 24">December 24</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993" class="extiw" title="en:1993">1993</a>) was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" class="extiw" title="en:Christianity">Christian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/preacher" class="extiw" title="en:preacher">preacher</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/author" class="extiw" title="en:author">author</a> (most notably of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Positive_Thinking" class="extiw" title="en:The Power of Positive Thinking">The Power of Positive Thinking</a></i>) and a progenitor of the theory of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/positive_thinking" class="extiw" title="en:positive thinking">positive thinking</a>".
Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
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