Uell Stanley Andersen

Who was Uell Stanley Andersen?

Uell Stanley Andersen was a successful American self-help and short story author in the 1950s and 1960s, most known for his book Three Magic Words, a "forerunner of the Law of Attraction information". Born of Norwegian parents, he was once a professional football player, and during World War II he served as a naval officer. Subsequently, he had a number of careers including running an advertising agency, wildcatting for oil, logging at the Columbia Sawmill, and acting as a gunnery officer on a destroyer escort.

He wrote the screenplay for the film The Charlatans.

The short story Turn Ever so Quickly was included in Houghton Mifflin's anthology The Best American Short Stories of 1963.