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Day, Holman (1865 - 1935)

Genre: General Fiction, Poetry

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.

Selected Bibliography

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)