Earning his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Kansas before pursuing his M.F.A. at the University of Arkansas, Bob Day was a cowboy-turned-novelist whose debut work The Last Cattle Drive (1977) is considered a modern Western classic. In addition to multiple other novels and novellas, Day also produced a range of award-winning short stories and memoirs. Day taught English and writing at Washington College in Maryland for more than four decades. While there, he founded the Rose O’Neill Literary House, a center for student writers to hone their craft, as well as the Literary House Press.
Bob Day died on January 6, 2022.
#1: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Bob Day at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#2: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Bob Day at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#3: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Bob Day at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
