Arthur Grove Day (1904 in

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– 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''. Day earned his bachelor's and graduate degrees from

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, where he befriended

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. He moved to Hawaii in 1944 and was a professor in the English department of the

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, where he taught a course in "Literature of the Pacific". He chaired the English department from 1948 to 1953. In 1979, he won the Hawaii Award for Literature.

Books

Day was a scholar of the South Pacific and wrote or edited more than fifty books, including * ''History Makers of Hawaii'' * ''Hawaiian Reader'' * ''

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’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

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, and

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* ''Rascals in Paradise'', co-written with

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Day, A. Grove 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 1904 births 1994 deaths 20th-century American male writers Stanford University alumni