page_title: List of atheist authors
section_title: E–G
hierarchical_section_title: List of atheist authors / Authors / E–G
caption_attribution_description: English: Black and white film copy negative of Maxim Gorky, half-length portrait, facing front by Herman Mishkin, N.Y.
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: Terry Eagleton (born 1943): British literary critic, currently Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester.
  Umberto Eco (1932–2016): Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist.
  Ruth Dudley Edwards (born 1944): Irish historian, crime novelist, journalist and broadcaster.
  Greg Egan (born 1961): Australian computer programmer and science fiction author.
  Dave Eggers (born 1970): American writer, editor, and publisher.
  Barbara Ehrenreich (born 1941): American feminist, socialist and political activist. She is a widely read columnist and essayist, and the author of nearly 20 books.
  Bart D. Ehrman (born 1955): renowned biblical scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who became an atheist after struggling with the philosophical problems of evil and suffering.
  George Eliot (1819–1890): Mary Ann Evans, the famous novelist, was also a humanist and propounded her views on theism in an essay, "Evangelical Teaching".
  Harlan Ellison (1934–2018): American science fiction author and screenwriter.
  F. M. Esfandiary/FM-2030 (1930–2000): Transhumanist writer and author of books such as Identity Card,The Beggar, UpWingers, and Are You a Transhuman. In several of his books, he encouraged readers to "outgrow" religion, and that "God was a crude concept-vengeful wrathful destructive."
  Dylan Evans (born 1966): British academic and author who has written books on emotion and the placebo effect as well as the theories of Jacques Lacan.
  Gavin Ewart (1916–1995): British poet.
  Michel Faber (born 1960): Dutch author who writes in English, wrote the Victorian-set postmodernist novel The Crimson Petal and the White.
  Oriana Fallaci (1929–2006): Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer.
  Vardis Fisher (1895–1968): American writer and scholar, author of atheistic Testament of Man series.
  Tom Flynn (born 1955): American author and Senior Editor of Free Inquiry magazine.
  Ken Follett (born 1949): British author of thrillers and historical novels.
  John Fowles (1926–2005): English novelist and essayist, noted especially for The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus.
  Anatole France (1844–1924): French novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize in Literature (1921).
  Maureen Freely (born 1952): American journalist, novelist, translator and teacher.
  James Frey (born 1969): American author, screenwriter and director.
  Stephen Fry (born 1957): British author, actor and television personality
  Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910): English philologist, one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary.
  Alex Garland (born 1970): British novelist and screenwriter, author of The Beach and the screenplays for 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Ex Machina, among others.
  Constance Garnett (1861–1946): English translator, whose translations of nineteenth-century Russian classics first introduced them widely to the English and American public.
  Nicci Gerrard (born 1958): British author and journalist, who with her husband Sean French writes psychological thrillers under the pen name of Nicci French.
  Rebecca Goldstein (born 1950): American novelist and professor of philosophy.
  Nadine Gordimer (born 1923): South African writer and political activist. Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991.
  Maxim Gorky (1868–1936): Russian and Soviet author who founded Socialist Realism and political activist.
  Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937): Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist.
  Robert Graves (1895–1985): English poet, scholar, translator and novelist, producing more than 140 works including his famous annotations of Greek myths and I, Claudius.
  Graham Greene OM, CH (1904–1991): English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer and critic.
  Germaine Greer (born 1939): Australian feminist writer. Greer describes herself as a "Catholic atheist".
  David Grossman (born 1954): Israeli author of fiction, nonfiction, and youth and children's literature.
  Jan Guillou (born 1944): Sw
caption: Gorky
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