Mays, John Bentley (Personal Name)

His The spiral stair, 1977: t.p. (John Bentley Mays)

Power in the blood, c1997: t.p. (John Bentley Mays) jkt. (b. 1941)

John Bentley Mays web site, viewed 18 October 2016 (award-winning Toronto writer on contemporary architecture and visual art, and the author of several books; born in the American South, came to Toronto in 1969 to teach in the humanities division of York University; the art critic at the Globe and Mail from 1980 until 1998 and cultural correspondent at large for the National Post from 1998 until 2001)

Globe and mail, 23 September 2016, online, viewed 18 October 2016 (John Bentley Mays, for four decades one of Canada's great observers, interpreters and explainers of art and architecture, died of a heart attack on Sept. 16; born in Shreveport, La., on June 22, 1941, to a family of cotton planters, both of his parents died while he was a child, and he was raised by various relatives; began a graduate degree at the University of Rochester in medieval literature and literary criticism; left for a teaching job at York University in 1969; served as the Globe's art critic from 1980 to 1998)

Amicus database, 18 October 2016 (authorized access point: Mays, John Bentley)

LAC internal file, August 27, 2019 (access point: Mays, John Bentley; Canadian)