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David Day (Canadian author)
Canadian author and poet
David Day (born October 1947)[1] is a Canadian author and poet. He is best known for his books on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.[2] Day has published 46 books that have sold over 3 million copies.[3]
Early life
David Day was born and raised in Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada.[4] His father worked as chief fireman for area military bases.[5] Day was editor of his high school's newspaper, and also contributed high school sports columns to the Victoria Daily Times,[6] graduating from Victoria High School in 1966.[7] After finishing high school, Day worked as a logger for five years on Vancouver Island before graduating in 1976 from the University of Victoria.[8]
Career
Day has published over 46 books of poetry, natural history, ecology, mythology, fantasy and children's literature. Day has been a columnist for Punch.[9] He is best known for his books on the life and works of J. R. R. Tolkien.[10]
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David Day (historian)
20th and 21st-century Australian historian
This article is about the Australian historian and author. For other people of the same name, see David Day.
David Andrew Day (born 24 June 1949) is an Australian historian, academic, and author.
Academic career
The son of a weather forecaster with Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, Day grew up in Melbourne and Charleville, Queensland before commencing accounting studies in which he performed poorly owing to his political activity, which included protesting against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.[1] After a short period of work, Day returned to his studies and graduated with first-class Honours in History and Political Science from the University of Melbourne and was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Day has been a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College in Cambridge, founding head of History and Political Science at Bond University, official historian of the Australian Customs Service, Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin,
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DAVID DAY
David Day, born in 1949, is an Australian historian and author. Day has written widely on Australian history and the history of the Second World War. Among his many books are Menzies and Churchill at War and a two volume study of Anglo-Australian relations during the Second World War. His prize-winning history of Australia, Claiming a Continent, won the prestigious non-fiction prize in the 1998 South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. An earlier book, Smugglers and Sailors, was shortlisted by the Fellowship of Australian Writers for its Book of the Year Award. John Curtin: A Life was shortlisted for the 2000 NSW Premier's Literary Awards' Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction.
His 2013 book, Antarctica: A Biography, offers an engaging account of the frozen continent. Day's latest book, Paul Keating: The Biography, was published in 2015.
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