George Samuel Clason (November 7, 1874 – April 5, 1957) was an American author.
The Clason Map Company was the first to publish a road atlas of the United States and Canada, but did not survive the Great Depression.
[2][3] Clason is best known for writing a series of informational pamphlets about being thrifty and how to achieve financial success.
He started writing the pamphlets in 1926, using parables that were set in ancient Babylon.
Banks and insurance companies began to distribute the parables, and the most famous ones were compiled into the book The Richest Man in Babylon - The Success Secrets of the Ancients.