Frances Frost | |
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Born | St. Albans, Vermont | August 3, 1905
Died | February 11, 1959 New York City, New York | (aged 53)
Nationality | American |
Education | Middlebury College, University of Vermont |
Frances Mary Frost (August 3, 1905 – February 11, 1959) was an American poet, novelist, and children's writer. She was the mother of poet Paul Blackburn.[1]
Frost was born in St. Albans, Vermont. She attended Middlebury College from 1923 to 1926 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1931. At Middlebury she joined Delta Delta Delta.
She married William Gordon Blackburn of St. Albans on April 4, 1926. Paul Blackburn (U.S. poet) was their son. She married Samuel Gaillard Stoney of Charleston, South Carolina, on September 18, 1933.[2]
Frost's work appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, The New Yorker, Harper's,[3] and Saturday Review.[4][5]
Her papers are held at University of California, San Diego,[6] and Yale University.[7]