death_date death_place birth_place birth_date image article_title name occupation
may 19 , 1963 , age 92 waynesboro , virginia boston , massachusetts 19 may 1871 walter russell.jpg walter russell
 walter russell artist , mystic , philosopher , builder , musician
walter russell

walter bowman russell -lrb- may 19 , 1871 -- may 19 , 1963 -rrb- was an american painter of the boston school and a sculptor , a mystic , a natural philosopher , a musician , an author and a builder .
his lectures and writing place him firmly in the new thought movement .
to the new york herald tribune , russell was `` the modern leonardo , '' a renaissance man for the twentieth century .
there are two biographies of walter russell .
the first is by non-sectarian religious writer glenn clark , who published `` the man who tapped the secrets of the universe '' in 1946 .
because clark collaborated with russell , the small book may be considered an authorized biography .
it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies .
another biography was published in 2011 -lrb- second edition in 2013 -rrb- by charles w. hardy : `` a worthy messenger : the life 's work of walter russell '' .
in addition , j.b. yount iii of waynesboro , virginia has written a biography of lao russell , whom he knew well .
thomas j. watson of ibm was russell 's patron , and adolph ochs , publisher of the new york times , his advocate in the media .
the new york times covered russell 's every public move and so provides an extensive paper trail .
