Clarence Shepard Day, Jr. (1874-1935) was an American author, best known for his 1935 work Life With Father which detailed humorous episodes in his family's life, centering on his domineering father, during the 1890s in New York City. Scenes from the book, along with its 1932 predecessor, God and My Father, and its 1937 sequel, Life with Mother, published posthumously, were the basis for the 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, which became one of Broadway's longest-running non-musical hits. In this books: Life with Father Life with Mother This Simian World