A. Grove Day
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Arthur Grove Day (Philadelphia 1904-March 26, 1994, Hawaii) was an author, teacher, and authority on the history of Hawaii, the founding editor in chief of Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region.[1]
Day earned his bachelor's and graduate degrees from Stanford University, where he befriended John Steinbeck. He moved to Hawaii in 1944 and was a professor in the English department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he taught a course in "Literature of the Pacific". He chaired the English department from 1948 to 1953.[2] In 1979, he won the Hawaii Award for Literature.[3]
Books
Day was a scholar of the South Pacific and wrote or edited more than fifty books, including[4]
- History Makers of Hawaii
- Hawaiian Reader
- Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii
- Best South Sea Stories
- Mad About Islands: Of a Vanished Pacific, a collection of biographical essays on famous writers who spent time in the Pacific, including Jack London, Herman Melville, and Robert Louis Stevenson
- Rascals in Paradise, co-written with James Michener
References
- ^ Online edition of Pacific Science, Jan. 1947.
- ^ "Pacific Scholarship, Literary Criticism, and Touristic Desire: The Specter of A. Grove Day", by Paul Lyons, in Boundary 2, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 47-78.
- ^ "Bio:A. Grove Day - ISFDB". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
- ^ "A. Grove Day | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2018-06-15.