Peter Vronsky

Peter Vronsky
Peter Vronsky in 2015
Peter Vronsky in 2015
BornToronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationAuthor, historian, film director, professor
EducationPhD in espionage in international relations and criminal justice history
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
GenreTrue crime, military history
SubjectSerial killers, history, international relations
Notable worksSerial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004), Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters (2007), Ridgeway: The American-Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle that made Canada (2011), Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present (2018), American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950–2000 (2021)
Website
petervronsky.org

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Peter Vronsky is a Canadian author, filmmaker, and investigative historian. He holds a PhD in criminal justice history and espionage in international relations from the University of Toronto. He is the author of the bestseller true crime histories Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004), Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters and Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers From the Stone Age to the Present (2018), a New York Times Editors' Choice,[1] and most recently American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950–2000 (2021), a history exploring the epidemic surge of serial killers in the second half of the 20th century. He is the director of several feature films, including Bad Company (1980) and Mondo Moscow (1992). Vronsky is the creator of a body of formal video and electronic artworks and new media.[2] He has also worked professionally in the motion picture and television industry as a producer and cinematographer in the field of documentary production and news broadcasting with CNN, CTV, CBC, RAI and other global television networks in North America and overseas.[3] Vronsky's 2011 book, Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada, is the definitive history of Canada's first modern battle – the Battle of Ridgeway fought against Irish American Fenian insurgents who invaded across the border from the United States on the eve of Canadian Confederation shortly after the American Civil War. He currently lectures at Toronto Metropolitan University's History Department in the history of international relations, terrorism, espionage, American Civil War, and the Third Reich. He consults as an investigative criminal historian to a number of law enforcement cold case homicide units including the NYPD, New York State Police, and Bergen County Prosecutor's Office New Jersey.

  1. ^ "9 New Books We Recommend This Week". The New York Times. November 2018.
  2. ^ Vanguard Magazine, November 1983, p. 47; Art London Review, Vol IV No. 3, March 15, 1984; John Bentley Mays, "Peter Wronski presents a garage sale of a show, Toronto Globe & Mail, January 21, 1982, p. E3; Lisa Balfour Bowen, "Even Sadat's death becomes stuff of wry comedy for innovative video artist", Toronto Star, January 16, 1982, p. F5; Susan Mackay, "Confession booth among video wizardry", Globe & Mail, August 15, 1984, p. M9; Dan Proudfoot, "The Video Art Vortex", Toronto Sun, October 28, 1984, p. S3; Christina Ritchie and Allan Blaine, Signal Approach, Catalogue to accompany the video series Signal Approach, held at The Funnel Experimental Film Theatre, Toronto, January 9 – March 13, 1985, The Funnel, 1984: http://mikehoolboom.com/thenewsite/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Signal-Approach.pdf; http://www.rewind.ac.uk/documents/Steve%20Hawley/SHA008.pdf
  3. ^ "Danger Man: The Underground Adventures of Peter Wronski", Metropolis Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, June 9, 1988; Enrico Sorrentino, "Due Marine per Lee", L'Espresso, February 23, 1993, p.61.