page_title: List of atheist authors
section_title: H–K
hierarchical_section_title: List of atheist authors / Authors / H–K
caption_attribution_description: Daniel Handler prepares to "give Lemony Snicket a call on the telephone", at a reading of The End. The event, titled For Crying Out Loud, was held at Capuchino High School, San Bruno, California, USA.
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: Mark Haddon (born 1962): British author of fiction, notably the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003).
  Daniel Handler (born 1970): American author better known under the pen name of Lemony Snicket. Declared himself to be 'pretty much an atheist' and a secular humanist. Handler has hinted that the Baudelaires in his children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events might be atheists.
  Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965): African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Best known for her work, A Raisin in the Sun.
  Yip Harburg (1896–1981): American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "April in Paris", and "It's Only a Paper Moon", as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz, including "Over the Rainbow." He also wrote a book of poetry, criticizing religion, "Rhymes for the Irreverent" 
  Sam Harris (born 1967): American author, researcher in neuroscience, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation.
  Harry Harrison (1925–2012): American science fiction author, anthologist and artist whose short story The Streets of Ashkelon took as its hero an atheist who tries to prevent a Christian missionary from indoctrinating a tribe of irreligious but ingenuous alien beings.
  Tony Harrison (born 1937): English poet, winner of a number of literary prizes.
  Zoë Heller (born 1965): British journalist and novelist.
  Theodor Herzl: Austro-Hungarian journalist and writer who founded modern political Zionism.
  Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814–1886): French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today.
  Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002): Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright.
  Archie Hind (1928–2008): Scottish writer, author of The Dear Green Place, regarded as one of the greatest Scottish novels of all time.
  Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011): Author of God Is Not Great, journalist and essayist.
  R. J. Hollingdale (1930–2001): English biographer and translator of German philosophy and literature, President of The Friedrich Nietzsche Society, and responsible for rehabilitating Nietzsche's reputation in the English-speaking world.
  Michel Houellebecq (born 1958): French novelist.
  A. E. Housman (1859–1936): English poet and classical scholar, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
  Keri Hulme (born 1947): New Zealand writer, known for her only novel The Bone People.
  Stanley Edgar Hyman (1919–1970): American literary critic who wrote primarily about critical methods.
  Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906): Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre.
  Howard Jacobson (born 1942): British author, best known for comic novels but also a non-fiction writer and journalist. Prefers not to be called an atheist.
  Susan Jacoby (born 1945): American author, whose works include the New York Times best seller The Age of American Unreason, about anti-intellectualism.
  Clive James (1939–2019): Australian author, television presenter and cultural commentator.
  Robin Jenkins (1912–2005): Scottish writer of about thirty novels, though mainly known for The Cone Gatherers.
  Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011): British writer. Best known for novels such as Howl's Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm.
  Neil Jordan (born 1950): Irish novelist and filmmaker.
  S. T. Joshi (born 1958): American editor and literary critic.
  Ismail Kadare (born 1936): Albanian novelist and poet, winner of the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and the inaugural Man Booker International Prize.
  Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Jewish Czech-born Writer. Best known for his short stories such as The Metamorphosis and novels such as The Castle and The Trial.
  K. Shivaram Karanth (1902–1997): Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker.
  James Kelman (born 1946): Scottish author, influent
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