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Poets > Robinson Jeffers
Born: 1887-01-10, Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh)
Died: 1962-01-20, Carmel, California
Status: Edge case
Poet of the California coast, born in Allegheny, where his father taught at Western Theological Seminary.
| When | Kind | What |
|---|---|---|
| 1887 | Born | Born in Allegheny. His father, the Rev. William Hamilton Jeffers, was a professor at Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh.[1][2] |
| 1902–1903 | Studied | After schooling in Europe, enrolled at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh) for one academic year.[2] |
Jeffers was born here and spent a year at the university at fifteen, then left for California.
Much of his schooling took place in Germany and Switzerland between 1898 and 1902. In May 1903 his father retired and moved the family to Southern California, where Jeffers entered Occidental College.