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John Richard Meader

b. 1870

Best remembered for early 20th-century works on success, money, and social questions, this American writer published practical, strongly argued books for everyday readers. He also wrote under the pen name Graham Hood and collaborated on a study of death and immortality.

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Your pay envelope

Your pay envelope

by John Richard Meader

About the author

John Richard Meader was an American author born in 1870. Surviving catalog and library records link him to books such as The Ten Laws of Success (1911) and Your Pay Envelope (1914), which suggest a writer interested in self-improvement, work, wages, and public debate.

Some records also connect him with the pen name Graham Hood. Under that name, he is credited as a co-author of Death: Its Causes and Phenomena, a wide-ranging early 20th-century book that explored death and the possibility of immortality.

Little biographical detail appears to be easily confirmed online beyond his authorship and dates in library-style records, so his published work remains the clearest picture of him: a writer engaged with ambition, economics, and big philosophical questions.