Andrew Pyper (1968-2025)

Author Andrew Pyper, 56, died January 3, 2025 at home in Toronto, Canada of cancer. Pyper published 14 novels, many thrillers with speculative elements.

Andrew Derek Pyper was born January 4, 1968 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from McGill University with an English degree, and went to law school at the University of Toronto. Though he passed the Bar in 1996, he never practiced law, instead becoming a full-time writer.

He published a collection of stories, Kiss Me, in 1996. Works of genre interest include his debut novel Lost Girls (2000), The Guardians (2011), Shirley Jackson and Sunburst Award finalist The Demonologist (2012), The Damned (2015), The Only Child (2017), and The Residence (2020). He also wrote as Mason Coile, with more books under that name forthcoming.

Pyper is survived by his wife Heidi and their two children.

For more, see his obituary notice.