Celebrities In Hell
by Warren Allen Smith

This handy reference, a companion to Warren Allen Smith's Who's Who in Hell, is the result of more than fifty years of research

Nonbelievers are often portrayed as demons. Warren Allen Smith wants you to know that they are not. In fact, they are important and constructive members of society who positively influence our life and culture in many ways. Based on Smith's 1,264 page reference book Who's Who in Hell (Barricade, $125), this trade edition provides short biographical sketches of prominent people who have belief systems that run against the grain.

Included are atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and humanists and just about every other strain of skeptic imaginable. Some of the names familiar to readers are: Woody Allen, Marlon Brando, George Carlin, George Clooney, Marlene Dietrich, Jodie Foster, Katharine Hepburn, Sally Jesse Raphael, Christopher Reeve, Howard Stern, and Uma Thurman.

Warren Allen Smith is the author of Who's Who in Hell, which was well received among reference librarians and academics, and garnered a front-page feature in The New York Observer. The book was spotlighted internationally on CNN. Additionally, Smith is an editorial associate for Free Inquiry, and has written for The American Rationalist, Gay and Lesbian Humanist, The Freethinker, Humanist in Canada, New Humanist, and Skeptical Inquirer.

6 x 9, 256 Pages
Illustrated
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 1-56980-214-9
$14.95
$22.95 (Canada)