Clarence Day --Life With Father
Clarence Day authored several books in his time, but the 1935 publication of Life With Father was his most significant and enduring. A staple in English Lit classes, the book is an autobiographical account of Day's young life with his family, peppered with humorous anecdotes about his Wall Street broker father. Published in 1935, the book was later-- in 1939-- adapted as a Broadway play. On the heels of its closing, in 1947, Life With Father was released as a movie, co-starring a teenage Elizabeth Taylor. From 1953 to 1955, Life With Father was given a new life, this time as a television show. Clarence Day did not live to see the influence his work would have on popular culture as he died the same year as the book's publication. Yet, his earlier words seem prophetic now: "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and,...