[2] His father, Price Day, worked as a foreign correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, earning a Pulitzer Prize in 1949, and was later editor-in-chief of the newspaper.
[2] Day was hired by the Los Angeles Times as the chief editorial writer in 1969.
[3] Day continued to work part-time for the Times as a contributor to the book review section after his official retirement.
He also continued to edit a regular column by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
"[3] Day died of emphysema on September 2, 2007, at St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.