Robert Greene

 Greene was born in 1959 to a Jewish family in Los Angeles. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in classical studies, he worked as a writer for Esquire and for other magazines, and in Hollywood as a story developer before writing The 48 Laws of Power, a book on the dynamics of social and political power, in 1998. The book was immediately successful, selling more than 1 million copies in the US, as were his follow-up works, The Art of Seduction and The 33 Strategies of War. Since 2003, he has worked as a consultant to several business executives. Since 2007 he has sat on the board of directors of American Apparel