A. Grove Day

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]

A. Grove Day
Born1904
Philadelphia
DiedMarch 26, 1994
Hawaii
OccupationAuthor, teacher, and authority on the history of Hawaii
LanguageEnglish
NationalityUnited States
Alma materStanford University
SubjectEnglish
Notable worksPacific 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
  • 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
  1. Online edition of Pacific Science, Jan. 1947.
  2. "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.
  3. "Bio:A. Grove Day - ISFDB". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  4. "A. Grove Day | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
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