| LC control no. | n 79045389 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3515.U1417 |
| Personal name heading | Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986 |
| Variant(s) | Hubbard, La Fayette Ron, 1911-1986 Hubbard, La Fayette Ronald, 1911- Hubbard, Lafayette Ronald, 1911-1986 Habard, L. Ron, 1911-1986 Hubbard, L. Ronald Хаббард, Л. Рон, 1911-1986 האברד, ל. רון |
| See also | For works of this author entered under other names, search also under Colt, Winchester Remington, 1911-1986; Daly, Jonathan, 1911-1986; Engelhardt, Frederick, 1911-1986; Gordon, Charles, 1911-1986; Hubbel, Bernard, 1911-1986; Keith, Michael, 1911-1986; Lafayette, Rene, 1911-1986; Legionnaire 148, 1911-1986; Martin, Ken, 1911-1986; Randolph, Barry, 1911-1986; Reynolds, Humbert, 1911-1986; Von Rachen, Kurt, 1911-1986 Colt, Winchester Remington, 1911-1986 Daly, Jonathan, 1911-1986 Engelhardt, Frederick, 1911-1986 Gordon, Charles, 1911-1986 Hubbel, Bernard, 1911-1986 Keith, Michael, 1911-1986 Lafayette, Rene, 1911-1986 Legionnaire 148, 1911-1986 Martin, Ken, 1911-1986 Randolph, Barry, 1911-1986 Reynolds, Humbert, 1911-1986 Von Rachen, Kurt, 1911-1986 Church of Scientology (Los Angeles, Calif.) Church of Scientology of California |
| Biography/History note | Hubbard moved to England shortly after founding Scientology, where he oversaw its worldwide development from an office in London for most of the 1950s; in 1959, he bought Saint Hill Manor, a Georgian manor house near the Sussex town of East Grinstead; he lived there with his family until early 1966 before moving abroad; this became the worldwide headquarters of Scientology through the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | East Grinstead (England) California |
| Birth date | 1911-03-13 |
| Death date | 1986-01-24 |
| Place of birth | Tilden (Neb.) |
| Place of death | Creston (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Speculative fiction Scientology |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Buckskin brigades ... c1937. Fortune of fear, c1986: t.p. (L. Ron Hubbard) p. 365 (d. 1-24-86) Arctic wings, c1991: t.p. (L. Ron Hubbard) p. i (wrote under several pen names; wrote a western under the pen name Barry Randolph) Contemp. auths., 1979 (Hubbard, La Fayette Ron, 1911-; no pen names listed) L. Ron Hubbard WWW Home page, March 30, 2006 (L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology) Wikipedia, Dec. 4, 2007 (L. Ron Hubbard; Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (Mar. 13, 1911-Jan. 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard; Born: Lafayette Ronald Hubbard; March 13, 1911, Tilden, Nebraska, United States; Died: January 24, 1986 (aged 74), Creston, California, United States) ha-Derekh el ha-osher, c1999: t.p. verso (ל. רון האברד = L. Ron Habard) L. Ron Hubbard [in rom.]) Author Services, Inc., fiction bibliography of L. Ron Hubbard, 22 October 2015 (pen names used: Lt. Jonathan Daly; Michael Keith; Legionnaire 148; Bernard Hubbel; Ken Martin; Kurt von Rachen; Captain Humbert Reynolds; Capt. Charles Gordon; Barry Randolph; Rene Lafayette; Winchester Remington Colt) L. Ron Hubbard: chronological list of works of fiction, 22 October 2015 (pen names used: Ken Martin; Lt. Jonathan Daly; Michael Keith; Legionnaire 148; Bernard Hubbel; Kurt von Rachen; Captain Humbert Reynolds; Capt. Charles Gordon; Barry Randolph; Frederick Engelhardt; René Lafayette; Winchester Remington Colt) Los problemas del trabajo, 1978: t.p. (L. Ronald Hubbard) Wikipedia, viewed 27 September 2023 (L. Ron Hubbard; Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (13 March 1911-24 January 1986); American author and 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; Hubbard created Scientology in 1952 after losing the rights to his Dianetics book in bankruptcy; he would manage the Church of Scientology until his death in 1986; in 1953, the first churches of Scientology were founded by Hubbard; Scientology became increasingly controversial during the 1960s; during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Hubbard spent much of his time at sea on his personal fleet of ships as "Commodore" of the Sea Organization, an elite quasi-paramilitary group of Scientologists; he returned to the United States in 1975 and spent the remaining years of his life in seclusion in the California desert) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 86145611 n 95037239 ns2012002699 |
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