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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I picked it up for free, but I found it odd that there's basically nothing on found on web searches for Hewitt, except for this, and a few hits for roughly 100 page bios on Einstein and Cleopatra. I find that a bit odd, too, since I think most biographers specialize, for example, contemporaries in the revolutionary war or civil war, or ancient Rome, because it takes a lot to figure out how to do research for any given era. If it wasn't free, without any sense of who Florian Hewitt is, and what sort of credentials he has. BTW, is there something in the book that indicates the author's gender? From my limited experience with this unusual name, Florian is usually male.
With the probably bogus claim to be award-winning, as well as not being able to find out anything about the author, there's no way I would have paid for this book.
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Ha. I don't think that I had ever known anyone named Florian in modern times before. I had heard of a "Saint Florian," from the long-ago past (how long ago I didn't know) but I did not know anything (else) about the person, even to the extent of gender. The information on the author's dedicated webpage at Amazon was so sparse that I wasn't going to get any help about the author's gender from it. Genuine thanks for the correction.
People are named after Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church saints all of the time, but I had never known someone named after this saint. Interestingly, I do know of a very small community in an area in the Deep South, named St. Florian (locals call it "Saint Floreen" ha). No doubt, it was named after the saint. Even more interesting is that this is in an area where a Roman Catholic is about as rare as an Eskimo in Hawaii. Orthodox people are probably much less common than that.
The only way that I could see that the author (or whoever wrote
his book description) was an award winner was that this book is a #1 seller at Amazon somewhere. I think that I mentioned that fact in my post. That would be very flimsy, though, IMHO, and I wouldn't even consider it an award.