“My greatest hope at that time was that a few young people would read my story and learn from my mistakes. I wrote That Bird Has My Wings while in solitary confinement, isolated and alone,” he says. “I turned 60 this year, having entered San Quentin at the age 19. Masters had this to say about the selection of his book for Oprah’s Book Club: HarperOne has reissued the book, which contains a foreword by spiritual teacher Pema Chödrön, who has long championed Masters’s cause. Oprah read the book shortly after it was first published by HarperOne, in 2009, and it left a strong impression: “His story, of a young boy victimized by addiction, poverty, violence, the foster care system, and later the justice system, profoundly touched me then, and still does today,” said Oprah. And with every day since, it's just become a raging fire of wanting to share all of this with the world.Masters has been incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison for the past 41 years. "Something inside of me had me turn the pages one by one, and I can still remember my tears hitting the pages as I was reading it," Rhonda says. That's when Rhonda's daughter gave her a copy of The Science of Getting Rich, a book written in 1910 by Wallace D.
"I wept and wept and wept, and I didn't want my daughter to see me sobbing," Rhonda says. At the time, everything in Rhonda's life had fallen apart physically, emotionally and financially and she was in "total despair." Then her father died suddenly, and she was worried about her grief-stricken mother. Rhonda says she stumbled on what she calls "The Secret" at the end of 2004. Rhonda Byrne (born March 12, 1951) is an Australian television writer and producer, best known for her work, The Secret, a New Thought book and movie which sold almost 4 million copies and more than 2 million DVDs in less than six months.
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