This Simian World (Dodo Press) Clarence Jr. Day

Clarence Shepard Day, Jr. (1874-1935) was an American author and essay writer. He was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University in 1896. The following year, he joined the New York Stock Exchange, and became a partner in his father"s Wall Street brokerage firm. In 1898, he enlisted in the Navy but developed crippling arthritis and spent the remainder of his life as a semi-invalid. He was a vocal proponent of giving women the right to vote, and contributed satirical cartoons for U. S. suffrage publications in the 1910s. He was also a long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine and sometimes wrote using the pseudonym B. H. Arkwright. Day"s most famous work is the autobiographical Life with Father (1935), which detailed humourous episodes in his family"s life, centring on his domineering father. Scenes from the book, along with its 1932 prequel, God and my Father (1932), and its posthumous sequel Life with Mother (1937) were the basis for a 1939 play. He also wrote: This Simian World (1920), The Story of the Yale University Press (1920), The Crow"s Nest (1921), Thoughts Without Words (1928), and In the Green Mountain Country (1934). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге This Simian World (Dodo Press) (Clarence Jr. Day)