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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was an American pulp fiction author. He wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, adventure fiction, aviation, travel, mystery, western, and romance.
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.
[2] [3] [4] The Hubbard family was Methodist, though L. Ron would later describe his grandfather as a "devout atheist". [5] When Ron was two, the family moved from Nebraska to Montana. [6] Hubbard's father worked as a manager and bookkeeper, first for a local theater [7] and later for a coal company owned by his father-in-law. [2]
In her book The Scandal of Scientology, Paulette Cooper examined the often fantastical nature of the past lives described, referred to by Hubbard as "space opera": "Hubbard has devoted a special book called Have You Lived Before This Life: A Scientific Survey just to past-life case histories of Scientologists. The preface of this book also ...
[2]: 8 Harry Ross Hubbard was an orphan, born Henry August Wilson in August 1886, who had been adopted by an Iowa farming couple by the name of Hubbard. The couple changed his given names to Harry Ross. [2]: 11 However, contemporary records show that his grandfather, Lafayette Waterbury, was a veterinarian, not a rancher, and was not wealthy ...
Daedalus Books is a seller of books, music, and video founded in 1980. [2] While it also sells new titles, Daedalus Books' specialty is the remaindered book . Its philosophy is to keep bestsellers, classics, and overlooked gems available to the reading public.
Spring 1936 - Hubbard family moves to Bremerton, Washington to live with Hubbard's aunts and grandmother, later settling in nearby South Colby. [5]: 74 Hubbard spent an increasing amount of time in New York City, [5]: 71 working out of a hotel room where his wife suspected him of carrying on affairs. [5]: 75, 84
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