John Putnam Demos is an American author and historian. He has written two books that discuss witch hunts and has discovered that one of his ancestors was John Putnam Senior, a member of the Putnam family that was prominent in the Salem witch trials.[1]
Demos was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Entertaining Satan. He was awarded the 1995 Francis Parkman Prize for his book The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America.
He retired in December 2008 as the Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University.[2]
Demos lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University.
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