Richard Cecil

Richard de Mille (February 12, 1922 – April 8, 2009) was an American author. He was the son of screenwriters Lorna Moon and William C. deMille and the adopted son of director Cecil B. DeMille. He was briefly a member of the Scientology movement during the early 1950s and spent much of his career as an academic psychologist. He is noted for his 1976 book Castaneda's Journey, an exposé on the spiritual writer Carlos Castaneda, as well as a 1998 biography of his mother, My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon…