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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: L. Ron Hubbard, Stephen R. Lawhead, Willa Cather, Daniel Quinn, Michael Bishop, Loren Eiseley, Chris Ware, Ted Sorensen, Mari Sandoz, Allison Hedge Coke, Robert Reed, Nicholas Sparks, Fabian Bruskewitz, Miles J. Breuer, Tillie Olsen, John Neihardt, Weldon Kees, John H. Reese, James Emanuel, Alice Beck Kehoe, Mignon G. Eberhart, Ron Hansen, Shane Osborn, J. Martin Klotsche, Don Welch, Jonis Agee, Kurt Andersen, Ted Kooser, Roger Welsch, Richard Dooling, Beatrice Van, Kristian Ostergaard, Mark Griep, Marjorie Mikasen, Laurel Trivelpiece, William Kloefkorn, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Alex Kava, Louise Pound, Mary Pipher, Kenneth C. Flint, Matt Mason, Stephanie Grace Whitson, Barbara Albright, Henry Olerich, Terese Svoboda. Excerpt: Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 - January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard (and often referred to by his initials, LRH), was an American pulp fiction author and religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology. After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first published in 1950. He subsequently developed his ideas into a wide-ranging set of doctrines and rituals as part of a new religious movement that he called Scientology. His writings became the guiding texts for the Church of Scientology and a number of affiliated organizations that address such diverse topics as business administration, literacy and drug rehabilitation. Although many aspects of Hubbard's life story are disputed, there is general agreement about its basic outline. Born in Tilden, Nebraska, he spent much of his childhood in Helena, Montana. He traveled in Asia and the South Pacific in the late 1920s after his father, an officer in the United States Navy, was posted to a U.S. naval...
