L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13 1911 – January 24 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was a prolific American author and the controversial founder of Dianetics and Scientology. In addition to philosophical works and self-help books, he wrote fiction in several genres, business management texts, essays and poetry.

Bibliography

Main article: L. Ron Hubbard bibliography

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Hubbard was an unusually prolific author. Because the majority of Hubbard's writings of the 1950s through the 1970s were aimed exclusively at Scientologists, the organization founded its own companies to publish his work, Bridge Publications (http://www.bridgepub.com/) for the US market and New Era Publications (http://www.newerapublications.com/nep/index.htm), based in Denmark, for the rest of the world. New volumes of his transcribed lectures continue to be produced; that series alone will ultimately total a projected 110 large volumes. An extensive series of audio recordings of Hubbard's lectures are also published by Bridge/New Era. A selection of Hubbard's best-known titles are below; an extensive bibliography of Hubbard's work is available in a separate article.

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Fiction

• Buckskin Brigades (1937)
• Final Blackout (1940)
• Fear (1951)
• Typewriter in the Sky (1951)
• Battlefield Earth (1982)
• Mission Earth (1986)

Dianetics and Scientology

• Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, New York 1950 ISBN 088404632X
• Child Dianetics. Dianetic Processing for Children, Wichita, Kansas 1951
• Scientology 8-80, Phoenix, Arizona 1952
• Dianetics 55!, Phoenix, Arizona 1954
• Dianetics: the Evolution of a Science, Phoenix, Arizona 1955
• Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought Washington, DC 1956
• The Problems of Work Washington, DC 1956
• Have You Lived Before This Life?, East Grinstead, Sussex 1960
• Scientology: A New Slant on Life, East Grinstead, Sussex 1965
• The Volunteer Minister's Handbook, Los Angeles 1976
• Research and Discovery Series, a chronological series collecting Hubbard's lectures. Vol 1, Copenhagen 1980
• The Way to Happiness, Los Angeles 1981