author
Florence Scovel Shinn
1871–1940
Best known for The Game of Life and How to Play It, she moved from the world of art and illustration into spiritual teaching and practical self-help. Her books helped make New Thought ideas feel direct, personal, and easy to use in everyday life.
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The game of life and how to play it
by Florence Scovel Shinn
About the author
Born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1871, Florence Scovel Shinn first built her career as an artist and book illustrator. She studied art in Philadelphia and later became known not only for her creative work, but for the lively, conversational way she explained spiritual ideas.
In her middle years, she turned toward teaching and writing in the New Thought movement. Her most famous book, The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925), brought together her lessons on faith, speech, expectation, and what she saw as the power of thought, and it remains the work most closely associated with her name.
Shinn died in 1940, but her writing has stayed in circulation for decades. Readers still return to her for her clear style, memorable examples, and early influence on later self-help and manifestation literature.