Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raise I.Q.s. A brilliant and eccentric man, who, despite disclaimers, still controls the cult, Hubbard was once a successful science-fiction writer. In 1949, he seemed to predict his own future in a jocular speech to a convention of fellow authors: "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion...
...soul or, in his terminology, the "Thetan," the conscious being that inhabits a human body. Embroidering on Hinduism and Buddhism, Hubbard announced that Thetans are reincarnated over trillions of years, which meant that there were aeons of engrams to be erased. For Scientologists, truth became stranger than science fiction. Hubbard's explanation of why someone might have difficulty crying: he was once a primordial clam whose water ducts had been clogged with sand...
...book on modern literary promotion. The color of a Susann dust jacket was carefully chosen for television appeal. Once on, Jackie, who died in 1974, quickly realized what many touring novelists have yet to accept: talk-show hosts rarely want to talk about a novel as a work of fiction. They want gossip, one-liners, jokes and, above all, a hot subject...
...unabashed juggling of literary records. It makes no sense for a critic who has written intelligently about Thackeray and Dickens in previous books to claim that illiteracy is "plainly a woman's theme" or that "money and its making were characteristically female rather than male subjects in English fiction...
After he graduated, Stark wrote news, poetry and fiction for several magazines, was national correspondent in Cleveland for the Wall Street Journal and New England correspondent for The Boston Globe. A former resident of Montgomery, Ala.. he was familiar with the then-governor of Georgia and knew some members of Carter's staff. He covered Carter for a week for the Globe early in 1975, and soon joined his campaign full time...