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A. Grove Day | |
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| 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]
- ^ 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.