Arthur Grove Day (1904 in Philadelphia – March 26, 1994 in Hawaii) was a writer, teacher, and authority on the history of Hawaii, the founding editor in chief of Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region.
[1] Day earned his bachelor's and graduate degrees from Stanford University, where he befriended John Steinbeck.
He moved to Hawaii in 1944 and was a professor in the English department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he taught a course in "Literature of the Pacific".
[2] In 1979, he won the Hawaii Award for Literature.
[3] Day was a scholar of the South Pacific and wrote or edited more than fifty books, including[4]