Phillip W. Hoffman

As a writer, Phillip W. Hoffman wrote stories and screenplays for dramatic TV series during the 1960s and 1970s. As a historian, his important biography of the most vilified, feared and hated early American frontiersman of the period 1741 - 1818, "Simon Girty Turncoat Hero" (2008, American History Press) involved some eighteen years' research and has become the definitive work on this subject. His book has helped Canada and the United States adjust their perspectives of this interesting cross-cultural character. His latest work, "David Fagen Turncoat Hero" echoes his first: a revealing and exciting account of a notorious African-American soldier who, like Simon Girty a hundred years earlier, took a heroic moral stand and defected during the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902.

Mr. Hoffman lives with his wife and dogs near Pensacola, Florida.