
Sam Harris
Known For
Acting
Born
1967-04-09 in USA
Biography
Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, and Waking Up. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, spirituality, violence, human reasoning—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Mr. Harris and his work have been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature,Rolling Stone, and many other journals. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, among others. His work has been published in more than 15 languages. Mr. Harris is a cofounder and the CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
Most Known For

Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
as Self

The Unbelievers
as Self

Waking Up
as Himself

Holy Wars
as Himself

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
as Self

Atheist Alliance International Convention 2007
as Self

The God Who Wasn't There
as Self

Islam and the Future of Tolerance
as Self

Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen
as Self

The God Debate II
as Himself