Author of Fiction - Art - L. Ron Hubbard, A Profile

“In writing an adventure story a writer has to know that he is adventuring for a lot of people who cannot. The writer has to take them here and there about the globe and show them excitement and love and realism.” L. Ron Hubbard

hat is generally missed,” Mr. Hubbard once remarked, “is that my writing financed my research.” And although more broadly known for what finally came from that research, his novels and stories will never be forgotten. Having published a full 15 million words between 1927 and 1941, the name L. Ron Hubbard had been virtually synonymous with popular fiction through the 1930s—or as friend and fellow author Frederik Pohl had proclaimed, “The instant his stories appeared on the newsstands, they became part of every fan’s cultural heritage.” And given the volume of his work through these years—more than two hundred stories and novels spanning all popular genres: Mystery, Western, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction and even Romance—that cultural heritage was indeed rich.