John Bentley Mays is a weekly columnist at the Globe and Mail. He is the former visual arts and architecture critic of The Globe and Mail and was also a columnist for the National Post.

He is the author of, among other books, Emerald City: Toronto Visited; and Power in the Blood: An Odyssey of Discovery in the American South, which was short-listed for the 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 and four National Magazine Awards.

John's latest book is Arrivals: Stories from the History of Ontario. He lives in Toronto with his wife, writer Margaret Cannon, and their daughter, Erin.

John is currently working on his book Eminence: Toronto's Elite, which has been sold to Random House Canada.