Matthew Head

<span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Matthew Head</span><span> is the pseudonym of </span><span style="font-weight:bold;">John Edwin Canaday</span><span> (1907-1985), an art critic and writer. Canaday was a </span><span style="font-style:italic;">New York Times</span><span> art critic for seventeen years and authored several monographs of visual art scholarship. Late in life he wrote restaurant reviews for the </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Times</span><span>. Under the Matthew Head pen name he wrote seven mystery novels, three of which are set in the Congo and based on his experiences traveling there as a French translator in 1943. Canaday was born in Fort Scott, KS; his series sleuth, Dr. Mary Finney, is said to be from Fort Scott as well. </span></span>