Peter H. Huyck

Peter Huyck (1940-2024) was a lifelong scholar and philosopher, late-in-life novelist, and possibly the world's most prolifically read person alive on the history of the rosary. His magnum opus novel, Rose Fire, was born out of an unexpected revelation he experienced while handling primary texts from early Christianity. In fact, Peter was tracking down ancient and obscure writings on Christianity and the rosary from across the globe long before Google made it easy, often charming his way into accessing databases, libraries, and special collections, as a vocation as city bus driver does not typically grant one access to those. (It does, however, happen to allow one to meet a myriad of international graduate students willing to help their friendly driver with translations of said obscure texts.) His earlier publications are all nonfiction, including Scriptural Meditations for the Rosary (Mystic, Connecticut: Twenty-Third Publications, 1982), Rosary Psalms (St. Paul's, United Kingdom, 1994), and A Scriptural Rosary - 1596 (St. Paul's, United Kingdom, 1999). St. Anthony Chaplet with art by Moses Hoskins is now also available through Amazon Press. His final book, The Rosary Project (2022), is a guide to praying the Marian rosary as it was originally intended, as evidenced by Peter's extensive body of research on the subject.