Holman Francis Day (1865 - 1935)

Genre: General Fiction

Born in Vassalboro and an 1887 graduate of Colby, Holman Day was a poet, a novelist, and a filmmaker, as well as a correspondent for the "Lewiston Sun" for years. He produced over 25 books, whose titles include:

• Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse (1900; his first book of poems)
• The Legend of Frenche's Isle (1900)
• An Edict in Modern Acadia (1901)
• Pine Tree Ballads: Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur' Up in Maine (1902)
• Kin o' Ktaadn: Verse Stories of the Plain Folk... (1904)
• Squire Phin: A Novel (1905; first novel)
• The Saints of Shiloh: The Story of Evangelist Sandford... (1905)
• The Rainy Day Railroad War (1906)
• King Spruce: A Novel (1908)
• Does Prohibition Pay? maine After Fifty-Seven Years of Prohibition (1908)
• The Eagle Badge: or, The Skokums of the Allagash (1908)
• Maine Faces Bitter Facts (1909)
• The Ramrodders: A Novel (1910)
• The Skipper and the Skipped, Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron (1911)
• The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border (1912)
• The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot (1915)
• Blow the Man Down: A Romance of the Coast (1916)
• Where Your Treasure is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross... (1917)
• The Rider of the King Log: A Romance of the Northeast Border (1919)
• All-Wool Morrison: Time: Today. Place: The United States... (1920)
• When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel (1921)
• Joan of Arc of the North Woods (1922)
• Leadbetter's Luck (1923; novel of lumbering in Misery Gore)
• The Loving are the Daring (1923)
• When the Fight Begins (1925)
• Clothes Make the Pirate (1925)
• Along Came Ruth: A Comedy in Three Acts (1930)
• The Ship of Joy, Hugh Barrett Dobbs, Commander... (1931)
• The Pants Jemima Made (1946)

An example of Day's poetry is available here.


Last Update: 05/30/2007

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