My first novel is about the events that led up to the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria, circa 415 AD. It focuses on the life and death of the first female mathematician scientist in history, Hypatia of Alexandria, a talented young philosopher of the Neo-Platonist school who was running the Great Library in Egypt at the age of 25, and was brutally murdered by the Christians ten years later. Though no one actually knows when the Great Library burned, it is shown in source material that Hypatia was its last known librarian. Her death marked the end of the Hellenistic Age, and the last of the pagan people as Christianity rose in power throughout the empire.

Growing up in California n the 1970's, my history books did not make much of the contribution of women to history. Before the 20th century, I could only name a small handful of women who had a mention in those pages, albeit important women, such as Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Marie Curie, Susan B. Anthony, and Cleopatra. Otherwise, it was the names of men that stood immortalized before me, the great kings, generals, and inventors of the centuries, and they numbered in the thousands. This made a deep unconscious impression on my blossoming psyche, although I was not aware of it. I saw that women had not mattered much over the ages, except to bear the men who would make important contributions to the times.
 
Later in college, I began to suspect that there were many women who had contributed to history than I was aware of. Around that time, I had a dear friend named Shannon, who passed away in a tragic accident in her early 20's, who was the most influential person on me in this way. She would mail me endless magazine clippings and book passages on the women that history forgot. When I discovered Hypatia of Alexandria, who was renowned across the empire for her intelligence, wisdom, purity, and beauty, and for her contributions to math and science, my heart leapt, for here was evidence that a great woman had lived and stood in prominence in a world previously dominated by men, and that she had the respect of not only her peers, but also of emperors, kings, and magistrates, as well as other reputable philosophers in sister libraries. In fact, so important was her life, that her contributions to mathematics are still in use today. Currently, my agent, and I are shopping for a publisher for the novel. If you would like to hear of its publication, please sign up for my newsletter. My next novel will be the next in the series. I also write screenplays, so I will keep you posted if any of them get slated for production. Thank you for your interest in my work!
  
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