David J. Mays

David John Mays (1896–1971) was an American lawyer and writer, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 (1952)Wikipedia, and for his diaries documenting Virginia's Massive Resistance era, published as Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954-1959.New York Times obituary