The Books Maslow Never Lived to Write

Key points

Maslow's unfinished legacy today includes his never-written books.

He had already conceptualized these books to expand humanistic psychology.

His immediate goal was to apply existing knowledge to personal and societal actualization.

Biographical evidence indicates at least five books were actively in planning.

The great English writer H.G. Wells memorably said, "Accomplished literature is all very (good) in its way...but much more interesting...are the books that have not (yet) been written.” This evocative statement is especially relevant to Abraham Maslow's life. As his biographer, I assure you that he died at the peak of his intellectual vigor at age 62. Maslow always worked on a half-dozen books simultaneously; if not for his chronic heart disease, he might well have pr