Holman Day
Holman Francis Day (November 6, 1865 – February 19, 1935)[1] was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Maine, 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 (1906; 1913)
- The Eagle Badge (1908)
- King Spruce (1908)
- The Ramrodders (1910)
- The Skipper and the Skipped (1911)
- The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border (1912)
- The Landloper (1915)
- Along Came Ruth (play produced in New York, 1914)
- Blow the Man Down (1916)
- Where Your Treasure Is (1917)
- Kavanagh's Clare (1917)
- The Rider of the King Log (1919)
- When Egypt Went Broke (1920)
- All Wool Morrison (1921)
- Joan of Arc of the North Woods (1922)
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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