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Andrew Pyper is an author and writer of fiction. He was born in Stratford, Ontario in 1968. Pyper received a Bachelor of Arts (1991) and a Masters of Arts (1992) in English Literature from McGill University. He submitted his thesis Terms of Authority: the case of Paul de Man’s Name to the English Department on July 1992. During his time at McGill, Pyper also contributed his writings to the Pillar Magazine and Old McGill Yearbook (1989). Since graduating he has returned to McGill to participate in university events such as the Public Lecture Series (2011).

Pyper also received a law degree from the University of Toronto and was called to the bar in 1996, but he never practiced. When completing his law degree Pyper worked on his first book entitled Kiss Me (1996), which is a collection of short stories. Following the success of this work, he participated in the Writer-in-Residence programs at Berton House, Dawson City, Yukon, as well as at Champlain College, Trent University, Ontario. During the residency programs he worked on the novel Lost Girls, published in 1999. It became a best-selling book in Canada and won him the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel in 2000.

Pyper released his second novel, The Trade Mission (2002) which he researched during a trip to Brazil. For his third novel, The Wildfire Season (2005), Pyper spent three summers living in Ross River, Yukon. Pyper's fourth novel, The Killing Circle (2008) and fifth novel, The Guardians (2011), are both mystery-thrillers that had notable success in Canada. His sixth novel, The Demonologist, is a horror story and was published in 2013. Pyper’s books would often make the top books lists for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Amazon and the New York Times. His books have been published in the Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Holland and Japan. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Italian and Japanese.

In addition to his novels, Pyper is co-creator of The Creeps, a horror anthology television series in development with CTV, Canada. Pyper’s work has also attracted the attention of film producers and some of his novels have been considered for film adaptations, such as Lost Girls, The Wildfire Season, The Killing Circle and The Guardians. Film rights for The Demonologist have been sold to Universal Pictures.

George Pyke was a lawyer, judge, and politician who lived in Montreal. He was born in Halifax on 19 January 1775 to John George Pyke and Elizabeth Allan. He began his study of the law under Richard John Uniacke in Nova Scotia. He was called to the bar in Quebec on 6 December 1796. In 1799, he was apppointed deputy durveyor general of land for Lower Canada. After this, he held a succession of public offices, including deputy clerk of the crown in 1800, clerk and protonotary of the Court of King's Bench at Quebec from 1802-1812, law clerk of the Legislative Council from 1816-1819, and acting judge of the Court of King's Bench at Montreal from 1818-1820. He took a permanent position as a judge of the Court of King's Bench at Montreal in 1820, which he held until 1842. During this time, he tried a number of important cases, including some associated with the Patriote insurrections of 1837-1838. Pyke retired in 1842 due to poor health, moving to a large estate at Pointe-à-Cavagnal in Vaudreuil. He married Eliza Tremain on 10 May 1809, and they had 6 children together: George, Marion, John, Isobella, Mary Lee and James William. He died in Vaudreuil on 3 February 1851.

Frederic Ward Putnam was born on April 16, 1839, in Salem, Massachusetts.

He was an American anthropologist and biologist. Entering Harvard College in 1856, he served as assistant (1857–1864) to the naturalist Louis Agassiz. He graduated from Harvard in 1862 and held zoological curatorships before becoming curator of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard (1875–1909). Putnam was one of the first to recognize and examine American archaeological remains, and he directed pioneer field expeditions in Ohio, New Jersey, the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America. He was appointed Professor of Ethnology at Harvard in 1887, and in 1891, he began organizing the anthropological section of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. That collection became the basis of Chicago’s well-known Field Museum of Natural History. In 1894, he began devoting half his time to the curatorship in anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City and was influential in dispatching the productive Jesup North Pacific Expedition to northeastern Asia and northwestern North America. In 1903, he went to the University of California, Berkeley, to organize both the new department of anthropology and the anthropological museum. Putnam published more than 400 zoological and anthropological articles, reports, and notes and was also a founder and the editor of the periodical American Naturalist. In 1882, Putnam was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society, and in 1898, he was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1901, he was president of the American Folklore Society and in 1905, he was president of the American Anthropological Association. He is widely known as the "Father of American Archeology".

In 1864, he married Adelaide Martha Edmands (1838–1879), and in 1882, he remarried Esther Orne Clarke (1839–). He died on August 14, 1915, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.