David Chilton is a Canadian

Canada

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 author

Author

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 from Sarnia, Ontario

Sarnia, Ontario

Sarnia is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the upper Great Lakes empty into the St. Clair River....

. Today he resides in Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener, Ontario

The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...

 where he runs his own financial planning business and publishing company. In 1989 he self-published his book The Wealthy Barber

The Wealthy Barber

The Wealthy Barber is a personal finance book by David Chilton. The book is structured around a story of three people in their late 20s visiting Roy, the title character, for lessons in financial planning. Each chapter of the book describes a different visit and a different element of financial...

. A look at personal finance, it went on to sell over three million copies, and is Canada's best selling book. Chilton also publishes a line of successful low fat cook books titled Looneyspoons, Crazy Plates and Eat, Shrink and be Merry which all went on to be national best sellers and lead to a Television show and a line of frozen dinners.

External links

• The Wealthy Barber