Sam Harris

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller,
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of
Reason. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford
University and has studied both Eastern and Western
religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative
disciplines, for twenty years. Mr. Harris is now completing
a doctorate in neuroscience, studying the neural basis of
belief, disbelief, and uncertainty with functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI). His work has been discussed in The
New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco
Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The Economist, The Guardian,
The Independent, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, New
Scientist, SEED Magazine, Stanford Magazine, and many other
journals. Mr. Harris makes regular appearances on television
and radio to discuss the danger that religion now poses to
modern societies. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award
for Nonfiction. Several foreign editions are in press. Mr.
Harris lives in New York City.