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- Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author and the founder of Scientology. A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career, in 1950 he authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established organizations to promote and practice Dianetics techniques.
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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author and the founder of Scientology. A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career, in 1950 he authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established organizations to promote and practice Dianetics techniques.
- Life of L. Ron Hubbard from 1911 to 1950 - Wikipedia
L. Ron Hubbard was born in 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, [1] the...
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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24,...
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- Life of L. Ron Hubbard from 1911 to 1950 - Wikipedia
L. Ron Hubbard was born in 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, [1] the only child of Ledora May (née Waterbury), who had trained as a teacher, and Harry Ross Hubbard, a former United States Navy officer. L. Ron was named after his maternal grandfather, Lafayette "Lafe" O. Waterbury.
- Early Writings
- Dianetics and Scientology
- Output and Reception
- Controversy
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Although he was best known for his pulp fantasy and science fiction, Hubbard also wrote adventure, aviation, travel, mystery, western and romance. He wrote under his own name and as Kurt von Rachen and René Lafayette, his principal science fiction/fantasy pseudonyms. His other pen names included "Winchester Remington Colt" (rather obviously reserve...
Hubbard's first major financial success came with the publication of Dianeticsin 1950, after which he departed the field of science fiction writing for many years. In 1951, he refashioned the material of Dianetics into Scientology. At this time, he established his first publishing organization, devoted exclusively to his own works, and used it (and...
Hubbard produced more than 250 published works of fiction in his writing career. At his peak, he wrote “over 100,000 words a month.” He is remembered for his “prodigious output" and the "amazing speed at which he could produce copy.” He used a special electric IBM typewriter with extra keys for common words like ‘and’, ‘the’, and ‘but.’ Scientology...
While nineteen of Hubbard's books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, New York Times rival paper, the Los Angeles Times printed an article questioning the validity of such sales. The New York Times is quoted in the same article, "the newspaper uncovered no instances in which vast quantities of books were being sold to single indivi...
Hubbard is credited with writing the story on which The Secret of Treasure Island, a 1938 Columbia Pictures movie serial, was based, as well as the story on which one episode of the TV show Tales of Wells Fargo(1957) was based.
This is a partial list of Hubbard's published works of fiction. Included are Fear, To the Stars, Final Blackout and Typewriter in the Sky, which were published in 1940 and reprinted numerous times. To the Stars was published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1950. Hubbard had a total of 235 works of fiction published. Reprinted titles, repr...
In 1983, Hubbard started the "Writers Award Contest", a competition aimed at discovering, and eventually publishing, deserving amateur and aspiring writers. The L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest was launched in 1988. Winning illustrators illustrate a winning story from the Writers of the Future contest. The program is administered b...
Fiction novels
1. Under the Black Ensign(1935) 2. Buckskin Brigades (1937), ISBN 0-88404-280-4 3. Slaves of Sleep(1939) 4. Ultimate Adventure, the (1939) 5. Final Blackout (1940), ISBN 0-88404-340-1 6. Indigestible Triton, the (1940) 7. The Automagic Horse(1940) published (1994) 8. The End Is Not Yet (1947) (serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, no book publication reported 9. Death's Deputy(1948) 10. The Kingslayer(1949) 11. Dianetics(1950) 12. To the Stars(1950) 13. The Masters of Sleep(1950) 14. Fear...
Short story collections
Beginning in the 1990s Author Services began publishing volumes of Hubbard's short fiction organized by genre (Adventure, Mystery/Suspense, Science Fiction, Western, etc.) At least 42 volumes were published. The following information comes from the Library of Congress's Online Catalog, with supplemental information from www.bookfinder.com Adventure Stories 1. V1-Five mex for a million ; Price for a hat ; The cossack 2. V2-The black sultan ; The barbarians—Red Sand 3. V3-The trail of the red d...
Dianetics and Scientology
1. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health(May 1950) 2. Dianetics: The Original Thesis(1951) 3. Science of Survival(June 1951) 4. Self Analysis(August 1951) 5. Advanced Procedure and Axioms(November 1951) 6. Handbook For Preclears(December 1951) 7. Scientology: A History of Man(July 1952) 8. Scientology 8-80(November 1952) 9. Scientology 8-8008(December 1952) 10. How to Live though an Executive(1953) 11. The Creation of Human Ability(July 1954) 12. Dianetics 55!(December 1954) 13. Dian...
L. Ron Hubbard at the Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseLafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author and the founder of Scientology. A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career, in 1950 he authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established organizations to promote and practice Dianetics techniques.
Sep 12, 2024 · In full: Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Born: March 13, 1911, Tilden, Nebraska, U.S. Died: January 24, 1986, San Luis Obispo, California (aged 74) Founder: Scientology. Notable Works: “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health”
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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was the founder of Dianetics and Scientology. [1] . He started as a pulp fiction and science fiction writer. Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska to Harry Ross Hubbard and Ledora May Hubbard. He died of a stroke in Creston, California. References.
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, dit L. Ron Hubbard, né le 13 mars 1911 à Tilden dans le Nebraska, et mort le 24 janvier 1986 (à 74 ans) à Creston en Californie, est une personnalité américaine, fondateur de la scientologie, dont la précédente carrière était celle d'auteur de science-fiction.
