when he became a lecturer in psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1965, he left that position, becoming editorial director of the Brooks Foundation the following year. He stayed there until 1967, becoming a research psychologist at the General Research Corp. in 1968, where he remained through 1973. He also wrote a biography of his birth mother, screenwriter Lorna Moon entitled My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon. Fellow writer Carol Easton (author of No Intermission: The Life of Agnes de Mille) remarked: "None of Richard de Mille's extraordinary relatives, not even the legendary Cecil B. de Mille himself, could have invented this riveting true story of celebrity, passion, betrayal, and tragedy". Writings on Carlos Castaneda De Mille wrote Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory in 1976, a book describing the detective work through which he said that Carlos Castaneda was a hoaxer and plagiarist and that don Juan is fictional. He edited a second book on the same subject, The Don Juan Papers in 1980, when he found that his exposé did not lead Casteneda's most ardent followers to fall away. This book contains documents representing views of Castaneda across the spectrum. Works Introduction to Scientology, Scientology Council, 1953. Children's Imagination Games, Dunbar Guidance Center, 1955. Put Your Mother on the Ceiling: Children's Imagination Games, Walker & Co., 1967, revised edition, Viking, 1973. (with R. P. Barthol) Project ECHO, Management Information Services, 1969. Two Qualms and a Quark, Capra, 1973. (as B. Grayer Dimrecken) A Skeleton Key to "The Transuxors", Capra, 1973. Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory, Capra, 1976. , The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies, Ross-Erickson, 1980. , My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998 , (with Bernard Stein) Benjamin Brief, DeMille Files & Reford Folder, 2001. References Further reading L.A. Confidential: The Author Was Raised By Cecil B. And Constance De Mille. Then He Found Out Who His Real Parents Were. Article by David Freeman. Published April 19, 1998.(c) New York Times. The Secret of the Other de Mille. Article by Scott Eyman. Published April 29, 1998. (c) Cox News Service. An Original: Richard de Mille. Article by Dr. Wallace Sampson. Published June 25, 2009. (c) Science-Based Medicine. Transcription of interview with Richard DeMille, Santa Barbara, California, 25 July 1986, via David Touretzky 1922 births 2009 deaths People from the San Gabriel Valley American adoptees American male journalists Journalists