Frances Frost

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	(1905-08-03)August 3, 1905 St. Albans, Vermont
Died	February 11, 1959(1959-02-11) (aged 53) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Education	Middlebury College, University of Vermont

Life

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]

Awards

• 1929 Yale Younger Poets Award
• 1933 O. Henry Award for "The Heart Being Perished"
• 1933 Golden Rose Award
• 1933/1934 Shelley Memorial Award

Works

Fiction

• Innocent Summer (Farrar & Rinehart, 1936)
• Kate Trimingham (Farrar & Rinehart, 1940)

Poetry

• 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

• 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

• Legends of the United Nations (Whittlesey, 1943)^[9]