About the Author

David Fitzgerald has been called both "The Ferris Bueller of San Francisco" and "one of the busiest atheist activists in the Bay Area." A former Southern Baptist, he had a secular epiphany in his 20's and now an atheist author, public speaker, campus organizer and secular event producer. He is Action Coordinator for San Francisco Atheists, the SSA's regional campus organizer for Northern California, and is on the national speaker's bureaus of both the Secular Student Alliance and Center for Inquiry. He is also Co-Founder/Director of the world's first Atheist Film Festival, San Francisco's annual Darwin Day celebration ("Evolutionpalooza!"), and (with fellow authors Greta Christina and Chris Hall) the Godless Perverts Story Hour. He also serves on the board of the Center for Inquiry-San Francisco, and works with the Stanford Humanist Chaplaincy, Camp Quest West, the National Center for Science Education and other community organizations. He has been a repeat featured speaker at the national conventions of American Atheists, American Humanist Association, the Secular Student Alliance, and is a crowd favorite at Skepticon. Besides all that, he is a historical researcher. His 2010 book Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All critically examines the historical evidence of Christ, and was voted one of the top five Best Agnostic/Atheist Book of the Year from About Atheism.com Reader's Choice awards. His latest books are The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion: The Mormons and the forthcoming follow-up to Nailed, entitled Jesus: Mything in Action.