page_title: List of atheist authors
section_title: C–D
hierarchical_section_title: List of atheist authors / Authors / C–D
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Italo Calvino
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: João Cabral de Melo Neto, (1920–1999): Brazilian poet
  Henry Cadbury (1883–1974): a biblical scholar and Quaker who contributed to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
  Italo Calvino (1923–1985): Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
  John W. Campbell (1910–1971): American science fiction writer and editor.
  Albert Camus (1913–1960): French philosopher and novelist who has been considered a luminary of existentialism. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
  Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907): Italian poet and teacher. In 1906, he became the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  Angela Carter (1940–1992): English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism and science fiction works.
  Anton Chekhov (1860–1904): Russian physician, dramatist, and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history.
  Staceyann Chin, performance artist and poet, who early in her life decided to always tell the truth, and blurted out the essentials of her life story to a housemate, including the declaration: "I'm not a Christian anymore, I don't believe in God."
  Greta Christina (born 1961): American blogger, speaker, and author.
  Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008): British scientist and science-fiction author.
  Edward Clodd (1840–1930): English banker, writer and anthropologist, an early populariser of evolution, keen folklorist and chairman of the Rationalist Press Association.
  J. M. Coetzee (born 1940): South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature; now an Australian citizen.
  Claud Cockburn (1904–1981): Radical British writer and journalist, controversial for his communist sympathies.
  G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959): English political theorist, economist, writer and historian.
  Ivy Compton-Burnett DBE (1884–1969): English novelist.
  Cyril Connolly (1903–1974): English intellectual, literary critic and writer.
  Joseph Conrad (1857–1924): Polish novelist who wrote in English.
  Edmund Cooper (1926–1982): English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction and other genres, published under his own name and several pen names.
  William Cooper (1910–2002): English novelist.
  Paul-Louis Couchoud (1879–1959), French philosopher and psychiatrist, a proponent of the Christ myth thesis, author of The Creation of Christ (1937/1939).
  Jim Crace (born 1946): English writer, winner of numerous awards.
  Theodore Dalrymple (born 1949): pen name of British writer and retired physician Anthony Daniels.
  Akshay Kumar Datta (1820–1886): Bengali writer.
  Aroj Ali Matubbar (1900–1985): Bengali writer.
  Rhys Davies (1901–1978): Welsh novelist and short story writer.
  Frank Dalby Davison (1893–1970): Australian novelist and short story writer, best known for his animal stories and sensitive interpretations of Australian bush life.
  Richard Dawkins (born 1941): British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and a fellow of New College, Oxford. Author of books such as The Selfish Gene (1976), The Blind Watchmaker (1986) and The God Delusion (2006).
  Alain de Botton (born 1969), author of Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion, 2012.
  Daniel Dennett (born 1942): American author and philosopher.
  Marquis de Sade (1740–1814): French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography.
  Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967): British journalist, historian and biographer.
  Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008): American science fiction author and poet, winner of several awards.
  Carlo Dossi (1849–1910): Italian writer and diplomat.
  Roddy Doyle (born 1958): Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter, winner of the Booker Prize in 1993.
  Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955): Award-winning British poet, playw
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