Born to one of the American South's oldest plantation families, John Bentley Mays has been the visual arts and architecture critic for The Globe and Mail and a columnist for the National Post. He is the author of In the Jaws of the Black Dogs: A Memoir of Depression; Emerald City: Toronto Visited; and Power in the Blood: Land, Memory and a Southern Family, which was shortlisted for the first Viacom Canada Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Award and was named a 1997 Notable Book by The Globe and Mail. He is also the winner of a National Newspaper Award as well as four National Magazine Awards. He lives in Toronto with his wife, writer Margaret Cannon, and their daughter, Erin.
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