Clarence Day

The life of Clarence Day beloved author of <I>Life With Father</I> <I>Life With Mother</I> <I>God and My Father</I> and <I>This Simian World</I> is revealed for the first time in <I>Clarence Day: An American Writer</I>. Using her father's diaries and family letters Day's daughter Wilhelmine Day Blower creates a lively portrait of her father's Victorian boyhood escapades at Yale and naval experiences in the Spanish-American War-until he was struck down with rheumatoid arthritis.</p><p>Forced to abandon an active life on Wall Street at the age of twenty-five Day struggled to make a career as a writer and illustrator. His life with his hot-tempered father energetic mother and three redheaded brothers is the background to his best-known book <I>Life With Father</I> which was later produced as a play and a Hollywood film.</p><p>Blower also shares with the reader other aspects of her father's life including his unusual marriage and his contribution to the success of a new magazine called <I>The New Yorker</I>. <I>Clarence Day: An American Writer</I> brilliantly captures the dedication of one of America's favorite authors.</p>