History Crush - Bob Day

03/08/2024Library and Archives Team
Robert Day

Bob Day, novelist and faculty member at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ for more than four decades, looked up at me from this black and white Polaroid dating from the late 60s or early 70s.

His time at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s O'Neill Literary House is legendary. Under his direction, the Washington Post called the readings at the Lit House

Bob DayAnd then, there’s this picture of him in full cowboy with his boots on a bicycle. Picture after picture of Bob Day from the pile showed a gregarious smile or a joke-between-us smirk.

Read more about him and his history with the Literary House and Writer’s Union in his interview in the . You can also read his eulogy in the February 2022 is .

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