caption death_date death_place birth_place birth_date genre image article_title name occupation
day brazil -lrb- sheila mcmillen 1999 -rrb- in 1999 on the border between venezuela and 10 october 2004 virginia , usa panama 1 may 1932 biography , criticism , novel douglasday.jpg douglas day
 douglas day professor of english , writer
douglas day

douglas turner day iii -lrb- 1 may 1932 -- 10 october 2004 -rrb- was an american novelist , biographer , scholar and critic .
he was a popular professor of english literature at the university of virginia , where he taught almost four decades .
