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Clarence Day
1874–1935
Best remembered for the warmly comic memoir Life with Father, this New York writer turned family memories into some of the most enduring humor of his era. He was also a cartoonist and essayist with a gift for making everyday domestic life feel vivid and funny.
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About the author
Born in New York City in 1874, Clarence Shepard Day Jr. grew up in the well-to-do Manhattan world he later wrote about so memorably. He studied at St. Paul's School and Yale, worked for a time in his family's brokerage business, and also served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War.
A long struggle with arthritis changed the course of his life and pushed him more fully toward writing and drawing. Day became known for light, sharply observed essays, sketches, and cartoons, often poking fun at family life and upper-class New York manners without losing his affection for the people he described.
His best-known book, Life with Father (1935), drew on his own childhood and especially on the commanding figure of his father. Published the same year he died, it became his greatest popular success and helped secure his reputation as one of America's most appealing literary humorists.