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Andrew Pyper
Andrew Pyper (March 29, 1968 – January 3, 2025) was a Canadian author whose novels blended the genres of thriller and science fiction. He published over ten works of fiction.
Pyper's parents emigrated from Northern Ireland to Stratford, Ontario. His father was an ophthalmologist and his mother trained as a nurse. Pyper was the youngest of five children by eight years. As a child, he read a lot of books and aspired to be a writer.
Pyper studied at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and obtained an honours B.A. and M.A. in English Literature. Rather than pursue a doctorate, Pyper followed a girlfriend to Toronto and studied law at the University of Toronto. Whilst attending Toronto University, he had several short stories published in Canadian literary magazines, including Quarry and The New Quarterly.
Although the relationship ended, Pyper continued three years of legal studies and graduated with a law degree and earned a Legal Theory Award. He was called to the bar in 1996. He never practised law and publicly expressed his dislike for it, later stating the idea of "hopefully mak[ing] enough money to feed the writing". Before he had finished his articling year, Pyper decided to pursue a career as a fiction writer.
Pyper was married to Heidi Rittenhouse, had two children, and lived in Toronto.
Pyper died at his home in Toronto of complications from intrahepatic bile duct cancer on January 3, 2025, at the age of 56.
Pyper had set himself the goal of having a book published before he turned thirty. Unbeknownst to Pyper, his editor at Quarry, Steven Heighton, sent a number of his short stories to John Metcalf, an editor at the Canadian publisher The Porcupine's Quill. To Pyper's delight, Metcalf published them in a volume entitled Kiss Me, released in October 1996.
Pyper then obtained a writer-in-residence position at Trent University's Champlain College. While there he wrote his first novel, Lost Girls. It was published in Canada by HarperCollins in 1999 and became a Canadian bestseller. It was published by Delacourt in the U.S. and MacMillan in the U.K. in 2000. It was in the Top 10 on the Times paperback list and in the Top 30 of The New York Times paperback bestseller list. It was also translated and published in Italian, German, Dutch and Japanese. The novel is being developed for a TV series, with Pyper attached as creator and Executive Producer. The book received widespread critical acclaim. The New York Times called it "brilliant" and The Boston Globe called it "compulsively readable."
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Andrew Pyper
Andrew Pyper (March 29, 1968 – January 3, 2025) was a Canadian author whose novels blended the genres of thriller and science fiction. He published over ten works of fiction.
Pyper's parents emigrated from Northern Ireland to Stratford, Ontario. His father was an ophthalmologist and his mother trained as a nurse. Pyper was the youngest of five children by eight years. As a child, he read a lot of books and aspired to be a writer.
Pyper studied at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and obtained an honours B.A. and M.A. in English Literature. Rather than pursue a doctorate, Pyper followed a girlfriend to Toronto and studied law at the University of Toronto. Whilst attending Toronto University, he had several short stories published in Canadian literary magazines, including Quarry and The New Quarterly.
Although the relationship ended, Pyper continued three years of legal studies and graduated with a law degree and earned a Legal Theory Award. He was called to the bar in 1996. He never practised law and publicly expressed his dislike for it, later stating the idea of "hopefully mak[ing] enough money to feed the writing". Before he had finished his articling year, Pyper decided to pursue a career as a fiction writer.
Pyper was married to Heidi Rittenhouse, had two children, and lived in Toronto.
Pyper died at his home in Toronto of complications from intrahepatic bile duct cancer on January 3, 2025, at the age of 56.
Pyper had set himself the goal of having a book published before he turned thirty. Unbeknownst to Pyper, his editor at Quarry, Steven Heighton, sent a number of his short stories to John Metcalf, an editor at the Canadian publisher The Porcupine's Quill. To Pyper's delight, Metcalf published them in a volume entitled Kiss Me, released in October 1996.
Pyper then obtained a writer-in-residence position at Trent University's Champlain College. While there he wrote his first novel, Lost Girls. It was published in Canada by HarperCollins in 1999 and became a Canadian bestseller. It was published by Delacourt in the U.S. and MacMillan in the U.K. in 2000. It was in the Top 10 on the Times paperback list and in the Top 30 of The New York Times paperback bestseller list. It was also translated and published in Italian, German, Dutch and Japanese. The novel is being developed for a TV series, with Pyper attached as creator and Executive Producer. The book received widespread critical acclaim. The New York Times called it "brilliant" and The Boston Globe called it "compulsively readable."