Robert Day was born in Shawnee in eastern Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, in 1941. He grew up there before it was all one big suburb. He finished his B.A. and M.A. degrees (the M.A. in 1965) at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, then went to teach at Fort Hays University, Hays, Kansas. From there he took a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Arkansas and began working in the English Department at Washington College, where he is currently writer in residence. He returns to Kansas for the summers, living in Ludell, a small down in Rawlins County. Kansas remains the setting of much of his fiction. He was visting professor at the University of Kansas for the Fall 2006 semester.
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