American writer revealing name of apostle forgotten in Bible (6)
I believe the answer is:
asimov
'american writer' is the definition.
'asimov' can be an answer for 'writer' (Isaac Asimov). I am not certain of the 'american' bit.
'name of apostle forgotten in bible' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'name' could be 'si' and 'si' is present in the answer.
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'revealing' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for asimov that I've seen before include "Author of "Three Laws of Robotics"" , "He wrote about robots" , "See 22 Down" , "Isaac -, US sci-fi writer" , "Isaac - - , SF writer" .)