John Francis Hayes (August 5, 1904 – November 1980) was a Canadian writer.
Among them, A Land Divided and Rebels Ride at Night won the Governor General's Award for Juvenile Fiction as the year's best Canadian works of 1951 and 1953.
[2] Another, The Dangerous Cove (1957), won the Canada Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1959.
For his body of work he was named the second recipient of the Vicky Metcalf Award, in 1964.
He took courses in advertising and writing and in 1930 entered the publishing business.