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]
Frances Frost | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 3, 1905 St. Albans, Vermont |
| Died | February 11, 1959 (aged 53) New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Middlebury College, University of Vermont |
Life
editFrost 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]
Awards
edit- 1929 Yale Younger Poets Award
- 1933 O. Henry Award for "The Heart Being Perished"
- 1933 Golden Rose Award
- 1933/1934 Shelley Memorial Award
Works
editFiction
edit- Innocent Summer (Farrar & Rinehart, 1936)
- Kate Trimingham (Farrar & Rinehart, 1940)
Poetry
edit- Hemlock Wall (Yale University Press, 1929); Yale Series of Younger Poets reprint, 1971
- Blue Harvest (Houghton Mifflin, 1931)
- These Acres (Houghton Mifflin, 1932)
- Woman of this Earth (Houghton Mifflin, 1934)
- Road to America (Farrar & Rinehart, 1937)
- Mid-Century (New York: Creative Age Press, 1946), OCLC 2959913
- Song For April (circa 1950) Found in an old scrapbook in 2020
Children's books
edit- Pool in the Meadow: Poems for Young and Old (Houghton Mifflin, 1933)
- Yoke of Stars (Farrar & Rinehart, 1939)
- Uncle Snowball (Farrar & Rinehart, 1939)
- Village of Glass (Farrar & Rinehart, 1942)
- Christmas in the Woods, illustrated by Aldren A. Watson (Harper & Brothers, 1942) — poem
- The Little Whistler, illus. Roger Duvoisin (Whittlesey, 1949) — poems
- Windy Foot at the County Fair, illus. Lee Townsend (McGraw-Hill, 1947)
- Sleigh Bells for Windy Foot, illus. Townsend (Whittlesey, 1948)
- Christmas is Shaped Like Stars, illus. Garry MacKenzie (T. Y. Crowell, 1948) — poem
- Maple Sugar for Windy Foot, illus. Townsend (McGraw-Hill, 1950)
- Then Came Timothy, illus. Richard Bennett (Whittlesey, 1950)
- Little Fox, illus. Morgan Dennis (Whittlesey, 1952)
- Amahl and the Night Visitors, illus. Duvoisin (Whittlesey, 1952) — narrative adaptation of the 1951 Christmas opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
- Rocket Away!, illus. Paul Galdone (Whittlesey, 1953), foreword by Robert R. Coles, Chairman of the Hayden Planetarium[8]
- Star of Wonder, illus. Galdone (Whittlesey, 1953), by Frost and Robert R. Coles[8]
- Fireworks for Windy Foot, illus. Townsend (McGraw-Hill, 1956)
- The Little Naturalist, illus. Kurt Werth (Whittlesey, 1959) — poems
As editor
edit- Legends of the United Nations (Whittlesey, 1943)[9]
References
edit- ^ Nelson, Julie. "Vermont Women's History - Vermont Historical Society" (PDF). womenshistory.vermont.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
- ^ Kukil, by Karen V.; [email protected], File format (1988-08-01). "Guide to the Frances Frost Papers". Retrieved 2016-04-09.
- ^ "Frances Frost | Harper's Magazine". Retrieved 2016-04-09.
- ^ Saturday review. Saturday Review Associates. 1939-01-01.
- ^ Voto, Bernard Augustine De; LLC, R. R. Bowker (1971-01-01). Saturday Review. Saturday Review Associates. ISBN 9780835203944.
- ^ "Finding Aid redirect". libraries.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
- ^ http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.frost
- ^ a b
Two children visit the Planetarium.
Publisher advertisements of Spring and Fall 1953 books for children list these two books with one-sentence capsules: "David and Jean take the Planetarium's thrilling rocket trip to the moon." and "David and Jean travel back to the first Christmas to explore the mystery of the wonderful star." New York Herald Tribune, May 17 pE29 and November 15 pF16, 1953.
See also Library of Congress and WorldCat records LCCN 53-5187 OCLC 1653271; LCCN 53-9011 OCLC 1418332. - ^ LCCN 43-14971 OCLC 1216299; LCCN 50-506 OCLC 13169260.
External links
edit- Frances Frost Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- Frances Frost at Library of Congress, with 36 library catalog records
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