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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  1. ^ "Spellbound" -Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan. 2009 Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Entertaining the Devil in Connecticut - New York Times
  3. ^ Rakove, Jack N. (19 September 1982). "Review: Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England by John Putnam Demos". NY Times.

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