About the Author

Peter Morgan (born Peter Paul Gangelin, hence the pen name) is a retired physician, neurologist, epidemiologist and editor. In 1970 he left his academic practice of neurology to come to Canada to earn a master's level degree in epidemiology and public health. After eight years at the University of Toronto, he joined the staff of the Canadian Medical Association Journal and became its scientific editor. There, he edged into fiction by turning his editorials on medical writing and scientific method into a book, The Insider's Guide for Medical Authors and Editors, which was enlivened by dialogues between clinicians and editors. The Words of the Papermaker is his first full-length novel. Peter and his wife Wynne live in Lanark, Ontario.