Frank Parker Day was an author, athlete, and academic born in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, in 1881. He grew up in various coastal Nova Scotian towns, and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship. Day served the Canadian Army in WWI, wrote for Harper's Magazine and Atlantic Monthly, and taught English at the University of New Brunswick and Union College in Schenectady, New York. Rockbound, which won Canada Reads in 2005, is widely considered Day's best work.