Frank Parker Day

FRANK PARKER DAY was a Canadian fisherman, academic, athlete, and author born in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, in 1881. In 1905 he won a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University, where he won the Oxford-Cambridge Heavyweight Championship. He served in the Canadian Army, and after the war he wrote stories for the Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s Magazine. He later taught English in both New Brunswick and Schenectady, New York. His best-known novel, Rockbound, was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2005, championed by Donna Morrissey, and won.