Personal Life
Peter De Vries met his future wife, poet and author Katinka Loeser, in 1943 when she won an award from Poetry magazine. The couple moved to Westport, Connecticut in 1948 They were the parents of four children: sons Derek and Jon, daughters Jan and Emily. Emily died in 1960 at age ten after a two year fight with leukemia. This experience provided the inspiration for his 1961 work, The Blood of the Lamb. Son Jon is an actor who has appeared in movies such as American Gangster, Sarah, Plain and Tall and Skylark as well as episodic television in shows like Blue Bloods, Boardwalk Empire and Star Trek:The Next Generation.
Katinka De Vries died in 1991. Peter De Vries died at age 83 on September 28, 1993 in a Norwalk, Connecticut hospital. He, his wife, and daughter are buried in Willowrook Cemetery, Westport, Conn.
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