Frederic Lansing Day (1890-1981) was an American playwright. He graduated from Yale in 1912 and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Day worked briefly as a journalist and as an employee in his father’s bank before turning his attention to playwriting. His published works include The Slump (1920), Heaven is Deep, and The Fall of the House of Usher, a seven scene dramatization of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story. Day’s most well-known play, The Makers of Light: A Play in Three Parts, was published in 1925. Day passed away in Wilton, New Hampshire.
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Literature
Frederic Day
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Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937
