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Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Place of Birth
Washington, D.C., USA
Also Known As
Ivan Stang
Reverand Ivan Stang
Douglass St. Clair Smith
Douglass Smith
Biography
American writer, filmmaker and broadcaster, best known as the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. He is credited with founding the Church with friend Steve Wilcox (aka Philo Drummond) in 1979, though he himself denied this and claimed the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.
