page_title: List of atheist authors
section_title: S–Z
hierarchical_section_title: List of atheist authors / Authors / S–Z
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: José Saramago irodalmi Nobel-díjas portugál prózaíró, költő.English: José Saramago Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
context_page_description: This is a list of atheist authors. Mentioned in this list are people whose atheism is relevant to their notable activities or public life, and who have publicly identified themselves as atheists.
context_section_description: José Saramago (1922–2010): Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
  Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French existentialist philosopher and playwright, 1964 Nobel Prize in literature that he refused. His mother was a first cousin of Albert Schweitzer. His lifelong companion was feminist Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986).
  Dan Savage (born 1964): Author and sex advice columnist. Despite his atheism, Savage considers himself Catholic "in a cultural sense."
  Bernard Schweizer (born 1962): English professor and critic specializing in literary manifestations of religious rebellion. Schweizer reintroduced the forgotten term misotheism (hatred of God) in his most recent book Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism, Oxford University Press, 2010. Schweizer, who has published several books on literature, is not a misotheist but a secular humanist.
  Maurice Sendak (1928–2012): Ethnically Jewish American writer and illustrator of children's literature.
  George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950): Irish playwright and cofounder of the London School of Economics. He is the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar, respectively, for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (1938, adapted from his play of the same name).
  Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878–1916): Irish suffragist, pacifist and writer.
  Michael Shermer (born 1954): Science writer and editor of Skeptic magazine. Has stated that he is an atheist, but prefers to be called a skeptic.
  Claude Simon (1913–2005): French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.
  Joan Smith (born 1953): English journalist, human rights activist and novelist.
  Warren Allen Smith (1921–2017): Author of Who's Who in Hell.
  Wole Soyinka (born 1934): Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.
  David Ramsay Steele (born before 1968): Author of Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy.
  G. W. Steevens (1869–1900): British journalist and writer.
  Bruce Sterling (born 1954): American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.
  Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894): Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, known for his works Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
  André Suarès (1868–1948): French poet and critic.
  Italo Svevo (1861–1928): Italian writer and businessman, author of novels, plays, and short stories.
  Vladimir Tendryakov (1923–1984): Russian short-story writer and novelist.
  Tiffany Thayer (1902–1959): American author, advertising copywriter, actor and founder of the Fortean Society.
  Paul-Henri Thiry (1723–1789): Baron d'Holbach was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.
  James Thomson ('B.V.') (1834–1882): British poet and satirist, famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night (1874).
  Miguel Torga (1907–1995): Portuguese author of poetry, short stories, theatre and a 16 volume diary, one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century.
  Sue Townsend (1946–2014): British novelist, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole series of books.
  Thanasis Triaridis (born 1970): Greek author.
  Freda Utley (1898–1978): English scholar, best-selling author and political activist.
  Giovanni Verga (1840–1922): Italian realist (Verismo) writer.
  Frances Vernon (1963–1991): British novelist.
  Gore Vidal (1925–2012): American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality. He also ran for political office twice and was a longtime political critic.
  Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007): American author, writer of Cat's Cradle, among other books. Vonnegut said "I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in churches quite a lot)."
  Sarah Vowell (born 1969): American author, journalist, hum
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