John Bemrose is a Canadian arts journalist, novelist, poet and playwright.
[1] His arts reviews have appeared in Maclean's,[2] The Globe and Mail, the National Post and on CBC Radio.
Bemrose was born and raised in Paris, Ontario,[3] where his father, Fred Bemrose, a 2009 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement, remains the town historian.
It is set in Ontario's cottage country and is being touted by its publisher as a vehicle for the vivid characterizations for which he's become known.
The Times Literary Supplement said in a review of The Island Walkers: "Bemrose’s characters […] live as real people live: contradictory, capable of kindness and disdain, of near-simultaneous love and hate, of gross betrayal….