Gerry Bowler

Gerry Bowler is a Canadian historian and writer with a special interest in popular culture and its connections to religion. He has won several awards for teaching, trivia, amateur theatrics and 5-pin bowling. He has travelled around the world and never succeeded in paying less than full retail price when haggling with merchants on five continents. Gerry has written on Bloody Mary, Wayne Gretzky, Christmas, tyrannicide, Renaissance monarchy, pirates, Puritans, The Simpsons, and the relationship between Aristotle and professional wrestling. He likes the writings of Samuel Johnson, Avram Davidson, Alan Furst, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Pastor, Maurizio di Giovanni and Richard Blake.