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Learn about Clarence Day Jr., who wrote the autobiographical Life with Father and other humorous works. He was also a Yale alumnus, a stockbroker, a suffragist, and a contributor to The New Yorker.
Clarence Day was an American writer whose greatest popular success was his autobiographical Life with Father. Educated at St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University (A.B., 1896), Day became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1897 and joined his father’s brokerage firm.
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Jan 28, 2022 · If you've ever come across the byline B.H. Arkwright, you were most likely reading the work of Clarence Day Jr., who in February 1931 began writing for The New Yorker under that pseudonym and also under his given moniker, which in four short years would become a household name.
Jan 1, 2015 · This is an intimate study of the dynamics of a late 19th century New York City family. Clarence Day, Jr., the eldest of three boys, writes descriptively and honestly about his parents, especially the control of his father over the family-his word is law and that is it.
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The Best of Clarence Day, Including: God and My Father / Life With Father / Life With Mother / This Simian World / and Selections from Thoughts Without Words 4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1948 — 18 editions
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- December 28, 1935
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Browse the list of books by Clarence Day Jr., the author of Life with Father and other humorous stories. See ratings, reviews, editions and more details for each book.
Clarence Day was an American humorist and author of "Life with Father" (1935), a memoir of his childhood under his domineering father. He was born in New York City in 1874, graduated from Yale, and served in the Navy before becoming a writer.
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