Tom Flynn

Thomas W. Flynn was an American author, journalist, novelist, executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and editor of its journal *Free Inquiry*. He was also director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum and the Freethought Trail. Much of Flynn's work addressed church-state issues, including his 1993 book *The Trouble with Christmas*, in connection with which he made hundreds of radio and TV appearances in his role as the curmudgeonly "anti-Claus", calling attention to what he viewed as unfair treatment of the nonreligious during the year-end holiday season. He edited *The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief*, a comprehensive reference work on the history, beliefs, and thinking of men and women who live without religion. He contributed a new Introduction to *A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom* by Andrew Dickson White and blogged on *The Washington Post*'s *On Faith* site during 2010 and 2011. He blogged regularly on the Center for Inquiry's blog *Free Thinking*. He was also the author of several anti-religious, black comedy, science fiction novels.