Frederic Lansing Day

Who was Frederic Lansing Day?

Frederic Lansing Day was an American playwright b. 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts d. 1982 in New Hampshire. Frederic Day, the son of Henry Brown Day, the founder of the Day Trust Company, was a Socialist and Unitarian. He graduated from Yale in 1908 and married Katharine Munroe whom he later divorced. They had a home built in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1920. He later remarried. Frederic Day worked briefly as a journalist and as an employee in his father's bank. He published at least four plays: The Makers of Light: A Play in Three Parts originally produced by The 47 Workshop of Harvard and published by Brentano's, The Slump, also produced by The 47 Workshop, Heaven is Deep, and The fall of the house of Usher: a dramatization in seven scenes of Edgar Allan Poe's short story.