diff --git a/src/hooks/useAuthor.ts b/src/hooks/useAuthor.ts
index e0aea66..c5da199 100644
--- a/src/hooks/useAuthor.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/useAuthor.ts
@@ -23,25 +23,38 @@ export function useAuthor(pubkey: string | undefined) {
       const querySignal = AbortSignal.any([signal, AbortSignal.timeout(15000)]);
 
       try {
-        // Try main relays first
-        let [event] = await nostr.query(
-          [{ kinds: [0], authors: [pubkey], limit: 1 }],
-          { signal: querySignal },
-        );
-
-        // If not found, try fallback profile aggregator relays
-        if (!event) {
-          try {
+        // Query the main pool AND the global profile aggregators IN PARALLEL,
+        // then keep the NEWEST kind 0 across all of them. Doing both at once
+        // (rather than only falling back when the main pool is empty) means a
+        // followed user's real name resolves even when their profile lives on a
+        // big indexer but not on the app's curated skate relay — the previous
+        // "generic npub name" bug.
+        const results = await Promise.allSettled([
+          nostr.query(
+            [{ kinds: [0], authors: [pubkey], limit: 1 }],
+            { signal: querySignal },
+          ),
+          (async () => {
             const fallbackGroup = nostr.group(FALLBACK_RELAYS);
-            [event] = await fallbackGroup.query(
+            return fallbackGroup.query(
               [{ kinds: [0], authors: [pubkey], limit: 1 }],
-              { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000) },
+              { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(8000) },
             );
-          } catch {
-            // Fallback failed, continue with no event
+          })(),
+        ]);
+
+        // Collect every kind 0 event we found and pick the most recent one.
+        const candidates: NostrEvent[] = [];
+        for (const r of results) {
+          if (r.status === 'fulfilled' && Array.isArray(r.value)) {
+            candidates.push(...r.value);
           }
         }
 
+        const event = candidates
+          .filter((e) => e.kind === 0 && e.pubkey === pubkey)
+          .sort((a, b) => b.created_at - a.created_at)[0];
+
         if (!event) {
           // No profile found - this is okay, user may not have published one yet
           return {};