Biography:

Medievalist; translator; college instructor.. Born– January 25, 1929, Birmingham. Parents– Howard and Marjory Leake. Married- Jim Day, 1950. Children– Five. Education– Northwestern University, B.S., 1950; Samford University, M.A., 1970; University of Alabama, Ph.D., 1975. Postgraduate fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles, 1981-82. Taught at Southern Benedictine College, 1975-1979; adjunct professor at Birmingham Southern College, 1979. Edited Quondam Et Futurus, Newsletter of Arthurian Studies, 1979. Contributed to the Proceedings of the Colloquium of Ghent and Literature at the University of Ghent, Belgium, in 1981.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1982; The Rise of Gawain; bhamwiki

Editor_and_Translator;

Latin Arthurian Literature.  Rochester: Boydell and Brewer, 2005.

The Rise of Gawain; Nephew of Arthur. New York; Garland Publishers, 1984.

The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria.  NY: Garland, 1988.

Editor;

Gawain:  Knight of the Goddess:  Restoring an Archetype.  Aquarian Press, 1990.

Joint_Editor:

King Arthur Through the Ages. New York; Garland, 1990.

Contributor;

Popular Arthurian Traditions.  Madison, WS, Popular Press, 1992.