Author: Anton Szandor LaVey
Alternate names: Anton S. Lavey; Anton Szandor La Vey; Anton Lavey
Born: 11 April 1930
Died: 29 October 1997
Bio: Anton Szandor LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey, was the founder of the Church of Satan as well as a writer, occultist, and musician. He was the author of The Satanic Bible and the founder of LaVeyan Satanism, a synthesized system of his understanding of human nature and the insights of philosophers who advocated materialism and individualism, for which he claimed no supernatural or theistic inspiration.