Come to know the literary legend that is L. Ron Hubbard—a leading light of American Pulp Fiction, a screenwriter in the Golden Age of Hollywood and a creative visionary who authored some of the world’s most enduring masterpieces. Here is both the story and back-story of a man who remains among the most widely read writers of all time.
“My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I am finger worn to the second joint and then to hammer keys some more. To pile up copy, stack up stories, roll the wordage and generally conduct my life along the one line of success I have ever had. I write.” —L. Ron Hubbard
CONTENTS INCLUDE
- An Introduction to L. Ron Hubbard
- About the Manuscript Factory
- The Manuscript Factory by L. Ron Hubbard
- The Art of Writing
- Art vs. Eats by L. Ron Hubbard
- Notes on Research
- Search for Research by L. Ron Hubbard
- Circulate by L. Ron Hubbard
- Story Vitality by L. Ron Hubbard
- Suspense by L. Ron Hubbard
- The Pulp Paper Puzzle by L. Ron Hubbard
- Magic Out of a Hat by L. Ron Hubbard
- How to Drive a Writer Crazy by L. Ron Hubbard
- The Golden Age
- The Shaping of Fear
- “By L. Ron Hubbard” by L. Ron Hubbard
- A Final Two Million Words
- The Writing of Battlefield Earth
- An Introduction to Science Fiction by L. Ron Hubbard
- The Magnum Opus: Mission Earth
- The Unfinished Mountain
- Original Story by L. Ron Hubbard
- L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future
Author, humanitarian and Founder of Dianetics and Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard is one of the most acclaimed figures of the modern age.
In a writing career spanning more than half a century, he was both a leading light of American fiction and the author of more than 35 million words of nonfiction—the single most embracive statement on the human mind and spirit, providing the only road to total spiritual freedom.
To date, more than 250 million copies of his works are in circulation worldwide, in 71 languages. All told, those works comprise over 3,000 recorded lectures and some 5,000 writings, including nineteen New York Times bestsellers.
Accordingly, and in testament to the magnitude of his literary legacy, there are his four Guinness World Records: most published author, most translated author, the author with the most audiobook titles and the single most translated non-religious work.
Yet the essence of L. Ron Hubbard’s legacy is perhaps best expressed in his simple declaration:
“I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
“These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.”
