Jeanne Robert Foster

Jeanne Robert Foster (1879-1970) was an American poet from the Adirondack Mountains. She was born Julia Elizabeth Oliver in Johnsburg, New York.

In 1896 she married Matlock Foster, and lived in Rochester, New York. She studied drama at the Stanhope-Wheatcroft Dramatic School, and worked in magazine journalism. She became a leading fashion model. The couple then moved to Boston; she continued to work as a journalist there and in New York, becoming literary editor of the " American Review of Reviews".

In 1916 she began to publish narrative verse about the Adirondacks. From this period she travelled in Europe, met important figures of modernism, and co-operated with the collector John Quinn in building up his contemporary art collection.

In 1932 she moved to Schenectady, where she worked as a social worker.

References

* *Richard and Janis Londraville. "Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford: Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends" (Syracuse University Press, 2001)

External links

* [http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/foster.htm www.northnet.org]