Here are essays, stories, articles, and links to websites with information of interest to A.A. members and others who want to know more about our pioneering founders.
The Points of Light Foundation offers biographical information on many people, including A.A.'s Co-Founders.
Robert Smith & William Wilson
"United in their search for sobriety, Dr. Bob and Bill W. established Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935. This fellowship allows men and women to share with one another their experience, strength, and hope in order to carry the message of recovery to alcoholics seeking help."
"It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a power greater than myself. Nothing more was required for me to make my beginning."
— William G. Wilson
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"As finally expressed and offered, they are simple in language, plain in meaning. They are also workable by any person having a sincere desire to obtain and keep sobriety. The results are the proof. Their simplicity and workability are such that no special interpretations, and certainly no reservations, have ever been necessary. And it has become increasingly clear that the degree of harmonious living which we achieve is in direct ratio to our earnest attempt to follow them literally under Divine guidance to the best of our ability."
Doctor Bob
See the entire text of Dr. Bob's article "The Fundamentals--In Retrospect," first published in the Septermber 1948 Grapevine at www.aagrapevine.org
The steps are simple, plain, and anyone can work them, Nothing special is needed. The extent to which we try to carry out God's will for us produces the same amount of harmonious living for us..