Clarence Day
| Clarence Day | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Clarence Shepard Day, Jr. November 18, 1874 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 28, 1935 (aged 61) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | B. H. Arkwright |
| Education |
Yale University St. Paul's School |
| Occupation | Author, cartoonist |
| Employer | The New Yorker |
| Known for |
The Story of the Yale University Press (1920) This Simian World (1920) Thoughts Without Words (1928) God and my Father (1932) Scenes from the Mesozoic and Other Drawings (1935) Life with Father (1935) Life with Mother (1937, posthumous) Father and I (1940, posthumous) |
| Spouse(s) | Katherine Briggs Dodge (c. 1901-1995) |
| Children | Wendy Veevers-Carter |
| Parent(s) | Clarence Shepard Day (1844-1927) Lavinia (Stockwell) Day (1852-1929) |
| Relatives | George Parmly Day (brother), founder of the Yale University Press Benjamin Henry Day, Jr. (uncle) Benjamin Day (grandfather) |
Clarence Shepard Day, Jr. (November 18, 1874 – December 28, 1935) was an American author and cartoonist, best known for his 1935 work Life With Father.
Born in New York City, he attended St. Paul's School and graduated from Yale University in 1896, where he edited the campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
The following year, he joined the , and became a partner in his father's Wall Street brokerage firm. Day enlisted in the Navy in 1898, but developed crippling arthritis and spent the remainder of his life as a semi-invalid.
Day's most famous work is the autobiographical Life with Father (1935), which detailed humorous episodes in his family's life, centering on his domineering father, during the 1890s in New York City. Scenes from the book, along with its 1932 predecessor, God and My Father, and its 1937 sequel, Life with Mother, published posthumously, were the basis for the 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, which became one of Broadway's longest-running non-musical hits. In 1947—the year the play ended on Broadway—William Powell and Irene Dunne portrayed Day's parents in the film of the same name. Life with Father co-starred Elizabeth Taylor and Martin Milner (later one of the two police-officer stars of the 1968 TV series Adam-12) [Martin Milner was born December 28, 1931; Elizabeth Taylor was born February 27, 1932], and received Oscar nominations for cinematography, art direction, musical score and best actor (Powell). Life with Father also became a popular 1953–1955 television sitcom.
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