Harold Sherman
Harold Morrow Sherman | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Novelist, lecturer, humanitarian |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 20th century |
| Genre | Adventure novel |
Harold Sherman was a prolific American author, lecturer and humanitarian during the middle 20th Century.
Biography
Harold Sherman was born on July 13, 1898, in Traverse City, Michigan. After briefly attending the University of Michigan, he joined the Student Army Training Corps during World War I. After the war, he moved to Detroit, Michigan, to work for the Ford Motor Company. He married Martha Bain on September 26, 1920, and had two daughters: Mary and Marcia.
Sherman began his writing career in 1921 as a reporter for The Marion Chronicle in Marion, Indiana. In 1924, the family moved to New York City, where Sherman wrote a series of popular boys’ sports and adventure books and had two short-running plays on Broadway. His first self-help book, Your Key to Happiness, published in 1935, led to his own personal-philosophy radio show on the Columbia network.
In 1937, Sherman—who believed he possessed a high degree of ESP—experimented in telepathic communication with famed Arctic explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. In the early 1950s, Sherman lectured across the country to New Thought, church, and civic groups on ESP and personal development. During his respites in Arkansas, he hosted a short-lived self-help TV show in Little Rock called Picture What You Want.
Sherman spent the 1950s and 1960s in Hollywood, writing for television and lecturing on the topics of his new bestselling books, TNT—The Power Within You (1954) and How to Make ESP Work For You (1964).
He died on August 19, 1987, and is buried in Traverse City, Michigan.