Frances Frost
Frances Mary Frost was an American poet, novelist, and children's writer. She was the mother of poet Paul Blackburn.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, and married Samuel Gaillard Stoney of Charleston, South Carolina, on September 18, 1933. Her son was Paul Blackburn.
Frost's work appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, The New Yorker, Harper's, and Saturday Review.
Her papers are held at University of California, San Diego, and Yale University.Awards
Fiction
- Innocent Summer
- Kate Trimingham
Poetry
- Hemlock Wall ; Yale Series of Younger Poets reprint, 1971
- Blue Harvest
- These Acres
- Woman of this Earth
- Road to America
- Mid-Century,
- ''Song For April Found in an old scrapbook in 2020
Children's books
- Pool in the Meadow: Poems for Young and Old
- Yoke of Stars
- Uncle Snowball
- Village of Glass
- Christmas in the Woods, illustrated by Aldren A. Watson – poem
- The Little Whistler, illus. Roger Duvoisin – poems
- Windy Foot at the County Fair, illus. Lee Townsend
- Sleigh Bells for Windy Foot, illus. Townsend
- Christmas is Shaped Like Stars, illus. Garry MacKenzie – poem
- Maple Sugar for Windy Foot, illus. Townsend
- Then Came Timothy, illus. Richard Bennett
- Little Fox, illus. Morgan Dennis
- Amahl and the Night Visitors, illus. Duvoisin – narrative adaptation of the 1951 Christmas opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
- Rocket Away!, illus. Paul Galdone, foreword by Robert R. Coles, Chairman of the Hayden Planetarium
- Star of Wonder, illus. Galdone, by Frost and Robert R. Coles
- The Little Naturalist, illus. Kurt Werth – poems
As editor
- Legends of the United Nations
