Alan Fox has degrees in accounting, law, education, and professional writing. He has been employed as a tax supervisor for a national accounting firm, established his own law firm, and founded a commercial real estate company that owns and manages more than seventy major income-producing properties in eleven states. He sits on the board of directors of several non-profit foundations, focusing on children, wellness, health, and education.

Fox is also the founder, editor, and publisher of Rattle, one of the most respected literary magazines in the United States. He is well known for the publication of his conversations with noted American poets, including several Pulitzer Prize winners.

Fox has energetically researched and tested PEOPLE TOOLS his entire life. These Tools have proven to be indispensable in achieving success in his business, his thirty-year marriage, and in parenting six assertive children, two stepchildren, and one foster child. He and his wife currently live in Studio City, California.