John Johnson

In 1942, at the age of 24, John Johnson self-published a small periodical called Negro Digest.  He used $500 to get his start.  The money was secured from a loan on his mother's furniture!

Three years later he launched Ebony magazine.

From this meager start Johnson built his business into a billion-dollar publishing empire.  In 1982 he became the first African-American to be featured on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans.

John Muir

Julie Aigner-Clark is the author who self-published the

Baby Einstein early learning videos, DVD's, and audio CD's for babies and toddlers.  Many of the products feature poems written by her.  The series became a winner of several prestigious awards causing sales to skyrocket to 8 million copies.  In November of 2001 she sold the company to Disney for

$25,000,000!

          Ken Blanchard 

                             L. Frank Baum 

                                                Lawrence Ferlinghetti

                                                                                  Lord Byron

     

Since 1990 author Lou Hays has self-published twelve books on

chess which have sold more than 250,000 copies to date.

Julie Aigner-Clark

Lou Hays

Next page