Zachary Cooper

Zachary Cooper is a writer of poetry, prose, and copy, residing in New England, but this is his first published book.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island—founded long ago by Roger Williams as a haven for religious freedom—Zachary believes very passionately in the personal choice of the individual, which inspired much of his message in the foregoing pages. (In a hustling-bustling world, you’ve got to take the time to take back your time.)

Zachary is a lifelong student of self-development with a particular fondness for the work of Neville Goddard and Teal Swan. His favorite quote from Neville at the moment is, “Leave the mirror and change your face.”

Reading widely, Zachary also enjoys the fiction of Clarice Lispector and Vladimir Nabokov and is feeling newly attracted to historical nonfiction. While he hopes, one day, to write a novel, his current interests are more in line with the essay form.

Zachary has, in fact, a couple more “self-help” titles rattling around in his cavernous skull like loose marbles, but he intends to take his sweet time shaking them out onto paper where he hopes they’ll land as pearls. He prefers to write slowly and by hand, two preferences that he flouted in the experiment that produced this book.

To conclude with a few more pieces of personal trivia, Zachary drinks his coffee black and his gin dry; he’s descended from a long line of practical jokers; and if he had his way, he’d sleep till noon more often.