Sam Harris date of birth:
April 9, 1967
How old is Sam Harris?
59
Where was Sam Harris born?
United States
What religion is Sam Harris?
Atheist
What is Sam Harris's ethnicity?
White
What is Sam Harris nationality?
American
What is Sam Harris's occupation?
Author, philosopher, neuroscientist
What genre is Sam Harris's work?
Non-fiction
Short Biography
Samuel Benjamin "Sam" Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, neuroscientist and philosopher. Harris is the co-founder and chief executive of Project Reason, a non-profit organization that promotes science and secularism, and host of the podcast: Waking Up with Sam Harris. As an author, he wrote the book The End of Faith, which was published in 2004 and appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. The book also won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005. In 2006, Harris published the book Letter to a Christian Nation as a response to criticism of The End of Faith. This work was followed by The Moral Landscape, published in 2010, in which Harris argues that science can help answer moral problems and can aid the facilitation of human well-being. He subsequently published a long-form essay Lying in 2011, the short book Free Will in 2012, and Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion in 2014.