Educated at Yale University, Day joined the New York Stock Exchange as a partner in his father's brokerage firm. In 1898, he enlisted in the Navy, but was released from duty after developing severe arthritis. He began contributing articles, essays and cartoons to various magazines, and became a regular contributor to the New Yorker. In 1920, he published his first book, This Simian World. His first real success came with God and My Father (1932), which was very popular and was only surpassed by Life With Father (1935). The latter became a smash Broadway hit some years after Day's death and was also made into a successful Hollywood film. His other works include The Story of the Yale University Press (1920), The Crow's Nest (1921), Thoughts Without Words (1928), In the Green Mountain Country (1934), Life With Mother (1936) and The World of Books (1938), the last two posthumously. |
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