Any favorite atheist authors?

[calguy]

19. This probably won't qualify as an Atheist author

But I am fascinated by the works of Neville Goddard. He has a unique way of interpreting the bible that has nothing at all to do with religion. He views the bible as a symbolic metaphysical book. Whereas religions teach it as an historical book. He believes that none of the people or events in the bible ever existed. Instead, in his view, the figures and events in the bible represent "states of mind". I grew up in an evangelical Christian environment and went to Christian school through the eighth grade. After all the formal biblical education I received in my younger days, never ever could I grasp or accept what I was being taught. I rejected it all once I moved out of the house and got on my own.
Neville has a way of interpreting things in such a way that now the bible makes perfect sense to me. It might not be acceptable to an Atheist person, but to many who have rejected the indoctrination pushed by organized religion, Neville Goddard might provide an insight that had not yet been considered.