page_title: List of atheist authors
section_title: N–R
hierarchical_section_title: List of atheist authors / Authors / N–R
caption_attribution_description: English: Graphite drawing - Published in Pinter's obituary in the New Statesman, 12 January 2009.[1]
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: Pablo Neruda (1904–1973): Chilean poet and diplomat. In 1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  Aziz Nesin (1915–1995): Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books.
  Larry Niven (born 1938): American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970).
  Michael Nugent (born 1961): Irish writer and activist, chairperson of Atheist Ireland.
  Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938): American author and Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.
  Redmond O'Hanlon (born 1947): British author, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
  John Oswald (activist) (c.1760–1793): Scottish journalist, poet, social critic and revolutionary.
  Arnulf Øverland (1889–1968): Norwegian author who in 1933 was tried for blasphemy after giving a speech named "Kristendommen – den tiende landeplage" (Christianity – the tenth plague), but was acquitted.
  Camille Paglia (born 1947): American post-feminist literary and cultural critic.
  Robert L. Park (born 1931): scientist, University of Maryland professor of physics, and author of Voodoo Science and Superstition.
  Frances Partridge (1900–2004): English member of the Bloomsbury Group and a writer, probably best known for the publication of her diaries.
  Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975): Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer.
  Raj Patel: (born 1972, London) is a British-born American academic, journalist, activist and writer, known for his 2008 book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. His most recent book is The Value of Nothing, which was on The New York Times best-seller list during February 2010.
  Cesare Pavese (1908–1950): Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator.
  Edmund Penning-Rowsell (1913–2002): British wine writer, considered the foremost of his generation.
  Calel Perechodnik (1916–1943): Polish Jewish diarist and Jewish Ghetto policeman at the Warsaw Ghetto.
  Melissa Holbrook Pierson: American essayist and author of The Perfect Vehicle and other books.
  Harold Pinter (1930–2008): Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years.
  Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936): Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934.
  Fiona Pitt-Kethley (born 1954): British poet, novelist, travel writer and journalist.
  Neal Pollack (born 1970): American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist.
  Terry Pratchett (1948–2015): English fantasy author known for his satirical Discworld series.
  Marcel Proust (1871–1922): French novelist, critic, and essayist. Best known for his work, In Search of Lost Time.
  Kate Pullinger (born before 1988): Canadian-born novelist and author of digital fiction.
  Philip Pullman CBE (born 1946): British author of the His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy for young adults, which has atheism as a major theme, calls himself an atheist, though he also describes himself as technically an agnostic.
  François Rabelais, (c. 1494–9 April 1553): French novelist sometimes regarded as an atheist but more often as a Christian humanist
  Craig Raine (born 1944): English poet and critic, the best-known exponent of Martian poetry.
  Ayn Rand (1905–1982): Russian-born American author and founder of Objectivism.
  Derek Raymond (1931–1994): English writer, credited with being the founder of English noir.
  Stan Rice (1942–2006): American poet and artist, Professor of English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and husband of writer Anne Rice.
  Joseph Ritson, (1752–1803): English author and antiquary, friend of Sir Walter Scott.
  Michael Rosen (born 1946): English children's novelist, poet and broadcaster, Children's Laureate 2007–2009.
  Alex Rosenberg (born 1946): Philosopher of science, author of The Atheist's Guide to Reality,
  Philip Roth (1933–2018): American novelist. Known  for his novella, Goodbye, Columbus.
  Salman Rushdie (born 1947): British Indian author, notable for The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children.
caption: Pinter
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