| A. Grove Day | |
| Birth Date: | 1904 |
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia |
| Death Date: | March 26, 1994 |
| Death Place: | Hawaii |
| Occupation: | Author, teacher, and authority on the history of Hawaii |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Stanford University |
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| Subject: | English |
| Notableworks: | Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region |
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Arthur Grove Day (1904 in Philadelphia – March 26, 1994 in Hawaii) was a writer, teacher, and authority on the history of Hawaii, the founding editor in chief of Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region.[1]
Day earned his bachelor's and graduate degrees from Stanford University, where he befriended John Steinbeck. He moved to Hawaii in 1944 and was a professor in the English department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he taught a course in "Literature of the Pacific". He chaired the English department from 1948 to 1953.[2] In 1979, he won the Hawaii Award for Literature.[3]
Day was a scholar of the South Pacific and wrote or edited more than fifty books, including[4]