Douglass Smith

Writing

Place of Birth

Washington, D.C., USA

Also known as

Ivan Stang, Reverand Ivan Stang

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.