Frank Parker Day
FRANK PARKER DAY was a Canadian fisherman, academic, athlete, and author born in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, in 1881. In 1905 he won a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University, where he won the Oxford-Cambridge Heavyweight Championship. He served in the Canadian Army, and after the war he wrote stories for the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine . He later taught English in both New Brunswick and Schenectady, New York. His best-known novel, Rockbound , was chosen for inclusion in...See more
FRANK PARKER DAY was a Canadian fisherman, academic, athlete, and author born in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, in 1881. In 1905 he won a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University, where he won the Oxford-Cambridge Heavyweight Championship. He served in the Canadian Army, and after the war he wrote stories for the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine . He later taught English in both New Brunswick and Schenectady, New York. His best-known novel, Rockbound , was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2005, championed by Donna Morrissey, and won. See less
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