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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Day won a
National Book Award (1974) for his life of English novelist Malcolm
Lowry. Malcolm Lowry: A Biography documents the turbulent life of the
alcoholic writer best known for his 1947 novel "Under the Volcano." Day
was also the editor, with Lowry's widow, Margerie, of Lowry's posthumous
novel Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid (1968). In 1973 Day
was editor of a new and definitive edition of William Faulkner's Flags
in the Dust (originally published as Sartoris). He had studied under
Faulkner in graduate school when William Faulkner was a visiting
lecturer at University of Virginia. Other books by Douglas Day include
Swifter than Reason: The Poetry and Criticism of Robert Graves (1963)
and two novels, Journey of the Wolf (1977), for which Day received the
Rosenthal Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, and The Prison Notebooks of Ricardo Flores Magon (1991).
