Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles 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).