Harry Lorayne is most famously known as an American magician, illusionist, author and a memory-training specialist, who is generally known as "the Yoda of memory training" by such prestigious magazines as Time. He appeared on the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was hosting it and gave numerous demonstrations on his phenomenal mnemonic techniques. He also does card tricks and innovation sleight-of-hand based tricks that have become vastly popular among younger magicians of the kind. He has written numerous books on tricks to help boost memory, including The Memory Book and Secrets of Mind Power.