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Day, Clarence (Shepard)

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Day, Clarence [Shepard] (1874–1935), essayist, best known for his autobiographical works, God and My Father (1932), Life with Father (1935), Life with Mother (1937), and Father and I (1940), in which, with affectionate humor, he characterizes his family's Victorian traditions and typical upper‐class life in 19th‐century New York. Life with Father, dramatized (1939) by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, once held the record of having the longest continuous run of any American play. Day was also noted for his genial, witty considerations of such matters as This Simian World (1920), satirizing human traits by speculating on possible evolutions from other animal families, and Scenes from the Mesozoic and Other Drawings (1935). Other books include The Crow's Nest (1921), enlarged as After All (1936); Thoughts Without Words (1928); and In the Green Mountain Country (1934).

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Clarence Shepard Day

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Clarence Shepard Day 1874–1935, American essayist, b. New York City, grad. Yale, 1896. His biographical sketches of his parents, God and My Father (1932), Life with Father (1935), and Life with Mother (1937), won him popular recognition; incidents from these three books were used by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse for the play Life with Father (1939), which was one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Day's other works include essays, This Simian World (1920), and a collection of light verse and drawings, Scenes from the Mesozoic (1935).

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