Tor is a term for a craggy outcrop or lookout. He spent most of his life in Carmel, California, in a granite house that he built with his own hands which they named "Tor House". In the 1920s and 1930s, at the height of his popularity, Jeffers was famous for being a tough outdoorsman, living in relative solitude and writing of the difficulty and beauty of the wild. Jeffers died Januan obituary can be found in the New York Times from January 22, 1962. The couple had a daughter who died a day after birth in 1913, and then twin sons, Donnan and Garth, in 1916. The two were married in 1913, then moved to La Jolla, California for six weeks, and finally Carmel, California in 1914, where Jeffers later constructed Tor House and Hawk Tower. Una spent some time in Europe to quiet things down, then the lovers lived together by Lake Washington to await the completion of Una's divorce. By 1912 the affair became a scandal, reaching the front page of the Los Angeles Times. Jeffers dropped out of USC medical school and enrolled as a forestry student at the University of Washington in Seattle, a course of study that he abandoned after a semester, at which time he returned to Los Angeles. Jeffers and Una Kuster became lovers Ted Kuster discovered their affair in 1910. He met Una Call Kuster in 1906 she was three years older than he, a graduate student, and the wife of a Los Angeles attorney, Edward G. While attending college, he was an avid outdoorsman and active in the school's literary societies.Īfter he graduated from Occidental, Jeffers went to the University of Southern California (USC) to study at first literature, and then medicine. He earned his bachelor's degree from Occidental College at age 18. By age twelve, he was fluent in German and French as well as English. An outstanding student, he was instructed in the classics and Greek and Latin language and literature. Jeffers traveled through Europe during his youth and attended school in Germany, France, and Switzerland.
His brother was Hamilton Jeffers, a well-known astronomer who worked at Lick Observatory. William Hamilton Jeffers, a Presbyterian minister and scholar of ancient languages and Biblical history, and Annie Robinson Tuttle.
Jeffers was born January 10, 1887, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), the son of Reverend Dr. participation in World War II, a stance that was controversial after the U.S. Influential and highly regarded in some circles, despite or because of his philosophy of "inhumanism", Jeffers believed that transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement. Much of Jeffers's poetry was written in narrative and epic form. John Robinson Jeffers (Janu– January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast.
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