Frances Frost

Frances Frost (August 3, 1905 St. Albans, Vermont - February 11, 1959 New York City) was an American poet and novelist.

Life
Frances Mary Frost 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, Vermont, on April 4, 1926 and Samuel Gaillard Stoney of Charleston, South Carolina, on September 18, 1933. Her son was the poet Paul Blackburn.

Frost's writing 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.

Recognition

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

Poetry

 * the Yale Series of Younger Poets reprint AMS Press, 1971