Robinson Jeffers

John Robinson Jeffers (January 10 1887–January 20 1962) was an American poet who, after extensive travel in his youth, spent most of his life in Carmel, California, USA in a granite house he built for his family with his own hands ("Tor House"), which included a large stone tower ("Hawk Tower").

Robinson Jeffers and Una Call Kuster

After he graduated from Occidental, Jeffers went to the University of Southern California to study medicine. There he met Una Call Kuster and the two became friends- a relationship that would alter the course of his life. Kuster was also a graduate student, as well as the wife of a respected Los Angeles attorney. She and Jeffers began an intense affair that later became public: a scandal garnering the front page of the Los Angeles Times. Jeffers then left the Los Angeles area and found refuge as a forestry student at the University of Washington for a short time. Jeffers and Una eloped and eventually ended up in Monterey County, California, on one of the most beautiful stretches of coast in the world.

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University of Southern California - Los Angeles Times - University of Washington - Monterey County, California

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