Holman Day
Holman Francis Day (November 6, 1865 – February 19, 1935)[1] was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Maine, and a graduate of Colby College (class of 1887). In 1889-90 he was managing editor of the publications of the Union Publishing Company, Bangor, Me. He was also editor and proprietor of the Dexter, (Me.) Gazette, a special writer for the Lewiston, (Me.) Journal, Maine representative of the Boston Herald, and managing editor of the Lewiston Daily Sun. In 1901-04 he was military secretary to Gov. John F. Hill of Maine.
The Holman Day House, his home Auburn, Maine, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bibliography
His writings include:
- Up in Maine (1901), verse
- Pine Tree Ballads (1902)
- Rhymed Stories of Unplanned Human Natur' Up in Maine
- Kin O'Ktaadn (1904)
- Squire Phin (1905; 1913), a novel dramatized as The Circus Man and produced in Chicago in 1909
- Rainy Day Railroad War[1] (1906; 1913)
- The Eagle Badge (1908)
- King Spruce[2] (1908)
- The Ramrodders[3] (1910)
- The Skipper and the Skipped[4] (1911)
- The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border (1912)
- The Landloper[5] (1915)
- Along Came Ruth (play produced in New York, 1914)
- Blow the Man Down[6] (1916)
- Where Your Treasure Is (1917)
- Kavanagh's Clare (1917)
- The Rider of the King Log (1919)
- When Egypt Went Broke[7] (1920)
- All Wool Morrison[8] (1921)
- Joan of Arc of the North Woods (1922) [9]
References
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External links
- Works by Holman Day at Project Gutenberg
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- Works by Holman Day at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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