Occupation Journalist,
Author Name Russell Miller | Role Journalist Ex-spouse Stephenie McMillan | |
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Born c. 1938 (age 76–77) London, United Kingdom Children Sasha Miller, Tamsin Miller People also search for Stephenie McMillan, Dusan Popov, Roger Boar, Sasha Miller, Tamsin Miller, Phill Hardy, Ian McMillan Nominations Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction Books Bare‑faced Messiah, Magnum: Fifty Years at the Fro, The house of Getty, The adventures of Arthur, Codename Tricycle | ||
Scientology enough is enough russell miller publish and be damned
Russell Miller (born c. 1938) is a British journalist and author of fifteen books, including biographies of Hugh Hefner, J. Paul Getty and L. Ron Hubbard.
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- Scientology enough is enough russell miller publish and be damned
- Russell miller flag down 2014
- Life and work
- L Ron Hubbard biography
- Awards
- Television appearances
- References
While under contract to The Sunday Times Magazine he won four press awards and was voted Writer of the Year by the Society of British Magazine Editors. His book Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency (1999) on Magnum Photos, was described by John Simpson as "the best book on photo-journalism I have ever read". His oral histories of D-Day, Nothing Less Than Victory (1993), and the SOE, Behind The Lines (2002) were widely acclaimed, both in Britain and in the United States.
Russell miller flag down 2014
Life and work
Miller was born in east London and began his career in journalism at the age of sixteen.
L. Ron Hubbard biography
In the early 1980s, Miller decided to write a biographical trilogy on the subjects of sex, money, and religion. The books that followed were Bunny (on Hugh Hefner, published in 1984), The House of Getty (on J. Paul Getty, 1985), and Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (on L. Ron Hubbard, 1987).
In the 1980s Miller spent two years researching Bare-faced Messiah, a posthumous biography of the science-fiction author who had founded Scientology. The book challenges the official account of Hubbard's life and work promoted by the Church of Scientology and it was serialised in The Sunday Times.
While researching the book in the United States, Miller was spied upon. His friends and business associates also received visits from Scientologists and private detectives. Attempts were made to frame him for the murder of a London private detective, the murder of American singer Dean Reed in East Berlin and a fire in an aircraft factory. Senior executives at publishers Michael Joseph, and at The Sunday Times, which serialised the book, received threatening phone calls and also a visit from private investigator Eugene Ingram, who worked for the Church. Another private investigator, Jarl Grieve Einar Cynewulf, told The Sunday Times journalists that he had been offered "large sums of money" to find a link between Miller and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Awards
Television appearances
In his capacity as Hubbard's biographer, Miller appeared in three British television documentaries: