A. Grove Day

American historian

A. Grove Day
Born	1904 Philadelphia
Died	March 26, 1994 Hawaii
Occupation	Author, teacher, and authority on the history of Hawaii
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stanford University
Subject	English
Notable works	Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region

Arthur Grove Day (1904 in Philadelphia – March 26, 1994 in Hawaii) was a writer, 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.