Holman Day

Biography

Holman Francis Day (1865-1935) was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Me., and a graduate of Colby College (class of 1887). In 1889-90 he was managing editor of the publications of the Union Publishing Company, Bangor, Me. He was also editor and proprietor of the Dexter, (Me.) Gazette, a special writer for the Lewiston, (Me.) Journal, Maine representative of the Boston Herald , and managing editor of the Lewiston Daily Sun. In 1901-04 he was military secretary to Gov. John F. Hill of Maine.

Bibliography

His writings include:

• Up in Maine (1901), verse
• Pine Tree Ballads (1902)

Rhymed Stories of Unplanned Human Natur' Up in Maine

• Kin O'Ktaadn (1904)
• Squire Phin (1905; 1913), a novel dramatized as The Circus Man and produced in Chicago in 1909
• Rainy Day Railroad War[1] (1906; 1913)
• The Eagle Badge (1908)
• King Spruce[2] (1908)
• The Ramrodders[3] (1910)
• The Skipper and the Skipped[4] (1911)
• The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border (1912)
• The Landloper[5] (1915)
• Along Came Ruth (play produced in New York, 1914)
• Blow the Man Down[6] (1916)
• Where Your Treasure Is (1917)
• Kavanagh's Clare (1917)
• The Rider of the King Log (1919)
• When Egypt Went Broke[7] (1920)
• All Wool Morrison[8] (1921)
• Joan of Arc of the North Woods (1922) [9]

External links

• Works by Holman Day at Project Gutenberg

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.