“The artist is looked upon to start things,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard at the outset of his contest. “The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.” Although he had been speaking of the authors to follow, these same sentiments certainly applied to himself. Today there are more than 100 million L. Ron Hubbard books in circulation, and with a twenty-year schedule to release both earlier books and unpublished works, that figure will only grow. But in either case, the mark has been made. As Professor of English and Foreign Languages, Stephen V. Whaley declared, “Without a doubt, L. Ron Hubbard is one of the most prolific and influential writers of the twentieth century.”