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Frances Dean Smith was born Frances Elizabeth Dean, in San Rafael, California, on March 19, 1922. During her childhood her family moved to the East Coast, where she grew up.
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They had four daughters but eventually divorced and Frances returned to California in 1963. She was closely associated with the Southern California poetry community. Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about Frances which has been used as a eulogy, "One for Old Snaggle-Tooth" (1977).
She died from complications of a hip fracture in Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California, early on June 2, 2009.
Graffiti té 6: "The Odyssey: Poets Passion & Poetry" (2006).
