A. Grove Day
American historian
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Arthur Grove Day (1904 in Philadelphia – March 26, 1994 in Hawaii) was a writer, teacher, and authority on the history of Hawaii. He was also the founding editor in chief of Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region.[1]
A. Grove Day | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1904 Philadelphia |
| Died | March 26, 1994 (aged 89–90) Hawaii |
| Education | Stanford University |
| Occupations | Author, teacher, and authority on the history of Hawaii |
| Writing career | |
| Language | English |
| Subject | English |
| Notable works | Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region |
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 (1966)
- 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
- The Story of Australia