Howard Edwin "John" Mills (June 23, 1930 – January 16, 2016) was a Canadian writer, professor of medieval literature and publisher of novels and essays.
He won a Surrey Agricultural scholarship to The University of Wales at Bangor, but spent most his time mountain climbing and did not graduate.
Mills worked in Scandinavia for a few months, then was conscripted into the British Army in 1950 and served two years, one of them in Germany.
He worked at various jobs, including encyclopaedia salesman and technical writer, and then he became a radar installer first on the Mid-Canada Line, then on the DEW-Line in the Canadian Arctic.
[3] Some of his essays and books include: The Land of Is (1972),[4] The October Men, Skevington’s Daughter,[5][6] Runner in the Dark (1992), Lizard in the Grass,[7][8] Thank your mother for the Rabbits (1993).