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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Jun 24, 2021 09:14 PM UTC:

Additionally, I cannot find any mention of Kronschild Publishing that is not associated with this book. As far as I can tell, this is the only book ever published by Kronschild Publishing. It was located in Lewisville, AR, which is also where JWB is said to have lived. The book has no ISBN, and all indications are that it was self-published.

Furthermore, it looks like John William Brown was old and has died. In his Preface, he mentions a trip to the Computer Science Department of Rutgers University in 1975. He was presumably an adult at the time, which would make him 64 or older. I don't recognize any name in his Acknowledgements except Hans Bodlaender. A few that I looked up gave me obituaries of old people. He mentions one in more detail, an old friend named Lewis Chessner who was a minister with a degree in physics. I found the obituary of a Rev. Lewis Chessner from Arkansas, and it did mention that he had a degree in physics. This old friend of Brown's was born in 1933. The only John William Brown I can find who lived in Lewisville is listed as 77. This person was related to Edith Brown, which is the name of "the foremost contributor" mentioned in the Acknowledgements. Finally, when I did a search for "Edith Brown Lewisville", the top result was an obituary for Johnny William Brown. Edith was his mother, and he was born in 1944. I expect this is him, and he is no longer with us.


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