Now retired, Gerry Burnie has had a long and varied career. For twenty years prior to his retirement, he lectured on the topics of political science and law at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto, Canada. Following that, he turned his interest to history, and lectured for a further five years on the topic of early pioneer settlement in Ontario. In addition, he has been an actor, singer, dancer, artist and municipal politician at various times in his life. These pursuits have been somewhat curtailed on account of his age, but not his industrious spirit. A second novel is now in the works.
He currently makes his home in Orillia, Ontario, but prior to this he was a fifth-generation resident of the Town of Georgina (which includes the Hamlet of Baldwin—the setting of his novel).