{"name": "Anton Szandor LaVey", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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."}, "personal_name": "Anton Szandor La Vey", "death_date": "29 October 1997", "alternate_names": ["Anton S. Lavey", "Anton Szandor La Vey", "Anton Lavey"], "photos": [7090428], "birth_date": "11 April 1930", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "19917109", "wikidata": "Q26168", "isni": "0000000122772341", "goodreads": "2983296", "imdb": "nm0491989", "lc_naf": "no95008617"}, "key": "/authors/OL2688052A", "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-29T13:35:46.876380"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-01T04:28:30.791763"}}