Clarence Day

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Clarence Shepard Day (born November 18, 1874 in New York , † December 28, 1935 there ) was an American writer and cartoonist.

Life

Day was the eldest son of Wall Street - Brokers Clarence Shepard Day (1844-1927) and his wife Lavinia Elizabeth Stockwell. His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Henry Day (1810–1889) was a publisher and founded the New York Sun in 1833 ; one of his uncles - Benjamin Henry Day (1838–1916) - is considered to be the inventor of the Benday Dots .

Day completed his school years at St Paul's School ( Garden City ) and then studied at Yale University ( New Haven ). At the age of 22 he finished his studies and became a partner in his father's company on the New York Stock Exchange .

In 1898 Day joined the United States Navy and also took part in the Spanish-American War that same year . During that war, Day became very ill with arthritis ; he spent the last years of his life bedridden.

Clarence Day Tomb in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Day died six weeks after his 61st birthday in New York on December 28, 1935, and found his final resting place in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York's Bronx .

reception

Day began making his first literary attempts as a student. But only after leaving the army did he try again and had great success with his memorial trilogy “God and my Father”, “Life with Father” and “Life with Mother”. However, Day did not experience the adaptations for theater, cinema or television.

In the beginning he wrote columns for magazines such as Metropolitan Magazine , The New Republic , The New Yorker and others. a. He sometimes also used the pseudonym B. H. Arkwright and illustrated his publications himself. The journalist Brendan Gill reports on Day's work for the magazine The New Yorker on an early " Nipplegate ". One of Day's drawings - a naked woman - was not allowed to be published by order of the publisher Harold Ross . Only when Day agreed to remove the nipple from the drawing was it allowed to be published.

Day's estate is in the New York Public Library .

Works (selection)

Single issues
  • The story of the Yale University . University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1958.
  • This Simian World . Knopf, New York 1936 (reprint of the New York 1920 edition).
  • The Crow's Nest. Essays . Knopf, New York 1921.
  • Thoughts without words . Knopf, New York 1928.
  • God and my Father . 12th edition, Knopf, New York 1936.
  • Scenes from Mesozoic and other drawings . University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1935 (illustrated book).
  • Our Lord Father ("Life with Father", 1935). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1961 (translated by Hans Fallada ).
  • After all. Essays and verses . Chatto & Windus, London 1936.
  • Our Lady Mother ("Life with Mother", 1936). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1962 (translated by Hans Fallada).
Work editions
  • The best of Clarence Day. Including "God and my Father", "Life with my Father", "Life with my Mother", "This Simian World" and selections of "Thoughts without words" . Knopf, New York 1948.
  • Clarence Day omnibus. Including "God and my Father", "Life with Father", "Life with Mother" . Sun Dial Press, New York 1945.

literature

  • Brendan Gill: Here at the New Yorker . Da Capo Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-306-80810-2 (reprint of the New York 1975 edition)

Adaptations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clarence Day at Find a Grave Memorial
  2. ^ Brendan Gill: Here at the New Yorker . 1997.
  3. ↑ This anthology has been extremely well reviewed by literary critic Carl Van Doren in The Nation magazine .
  4. ↑ US comedy sitcom "Life With Father"
personal data
SURNAME Day, Clarence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Day, Clarence Shepard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1935
Place of death new York